In the matter of lexus LX 570's, Toyota Landcruisers and our state vehicles - Citifmonline
Last week it emerged that Dr. Joe Oteng-Adjei, Minister of Energy and Petroleum from 2009 to 2012, was still using a Lexus LX 570 owned by the ministry although he had been re-assigned from that ministry to the Ministry of Environment, Science &... The vehicle was one of several overpriced American built vehicles bought by the Energy Ministry for a rural electrification project. His smelly, Bible quotation filled defence was that the Toyota Landcruiser allocated to him at the Energy Ministry had been involved in an accident and had been replaced with the Lexus, a project vehicle. When he was reassigned to the MEST, he thought it prudent to save cash strapped MEST money by using the Lexus instead of having a new vehicle bought for him. Under pressure from Joyfm’s radio presenters, he said he had returned the vehicle to the ministry last Monday, 23 February. He didn’t know much about cars but acted on the advice of the young men at the ministry who told him the Chrysler was the equivalent of a Toyota Camry and that the ministry had to buy American built vehicles for the project. The painful story surrounding the wrongful appropriation of the state vehicle by the minister ends, sadly, with him shamefully returning it to the ministry. Source: citifmonline.com
