The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has alleged that a member of the Electoral Commission (EC) was going round clandestinely lying to journalists to win public sympathy in the ongoing removal proceedings at the commission.
Speaking during Joy FM’s Newsfile news analysis programme, Newsfile on Saturday, Mr Baako said, “there are too many big men these days lying, including women.”
“You know there is a tape in circulation of a member of the EC, I’m not going into details, who is lying to a journalist about the $12million cash that she claimed the NDC had brought to the EC and that the Deputy Minister of Information, well I shouldn’t have gone that far, cut the money to $6million and sent the $6million to another personality in the EC and they didn’t get some.”
Adding he said, “that was a bloody lie, we all know, she was lying but she put it out there. She wanted this journalist to go and put it out there. Fortunately for the journalist, who is now here, he works for this station [Joy News], this journalist decided to double check and realized that there was no truth in it but this is a big person in a position of public trust, calls a journalist, puts this thing down, the journalist had to record.”
The veteran journalist who was contributing to discussions on the leaked tape in which the Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen alleged the presidency supported NPP’s Cape Coast conference with Ghc50billion justified the need to record such conversations.
“To be honest with you, I record if I’m check mating crime to uphold public health or public order. It’s a business I have done all my life and I have thousands of such tapes, one day they will be put out in the public domain, what do you think Anas does, there are judges who have lost their jobs based on that covert investigative methodology, so it is done,” he said this to dispel suggestions that it was unhealthy to secretly record conversations.
Source: Daily Graphic
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So Rawlings does not talk in vacuum anyway. Then rightly as u said John Agyeikum Kuffuor is a ***barred word*** (ref: Rawlings, 2003). Yaa gyae gyimie no kakra
The reason why Nana Addo is keeping someone such as Ken Dapaa as head of National Security beats my imagination. The guy has no clue at that office. Such a sensitive position should not be toyed with. If some of us abroad could pick sensitive security information from Ghana at a time the National Security has no clue of what’s going on, then we are doomed as a nation. Rawlings just don’t talk when it comes to matters of Security. Why do you think people like Kwesi Pratt, Kofi Adams who are doing the bidding of NDC will attack Rawlings that strong when he (Papa J) said “ I hope the currently security disruption is not Politically motivated”.? Did Papa J mention the name of any Politician or Political Party? Yet the NDC communicators descended heavily on him. This Plan was within the known of some of us way before it came to light. Now tell me, why must we pay people such as Ken Dapaa at the National Security? Painting Ghana as insecure is one of the main agenda for NDC to score points against the ruling NPP. No wonder Otumfour was forced to resurrect the Delta Force matter at a time it had settled. Did anybody question why that time? Nana Addo must wake up because it doesn’t matter what you will do if people are not safe and secured in their home country, nothing matters. Get Competent People in Place of National Security. Period!!!