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Special Aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari has rubbished claims that her boss influenced the construction of a guest house in his hometown, Bole, in the Northern Region, using funds belonging to the Ghana Cocoa Board, for his personal comfort.
She was emphatic that the claims are untrue and proved in a statement copied to Peacefmonline.com that, the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana Research Station Guest House, “has been in existence since 1975.”
“CRIG Guest House was built in the 70s, not for Mahama,” portion of the statement read.
The accusation of Mahama’s involvement in the construction of the guest house was earlier made by the COCOBOD Chief Executive Officer, Joseph Boahen Aidoo.
But Madam Joyce Bawa Mogtari described the claims “a regrettable pattern of false and inaccurate information.”
“Mr. Boahen Aidoo stated that President John Dramani Mahama influenced the award of a contract to construct a guest house at Bole in the Northern Region to enable him enjoy comfortable holidays during visits to his constituency.”
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Office of the Former President wishes to state that this claim is false.”
“The guest house in question, the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) Research Station Guest House, has been in existence since 1975, and could not possibly have been constructed during the tenure of President Mahama,” She said in the statement.
Find below the full statement
CRIG Guest House was built in the 70s, not for Mahama
The Office of Former President John Dramani Mahama has learnt of a number of claims by Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Joseph Boahen Aidoo, at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday.
Among others, Mr. Boahen Aidoo stated that President John Dramani Mahama influenced the award of a contract to construct a guest house at Bole in the Northern Region to “enable him enjoy comfortable holidays during visits to his constituency.”
For the avoidance of doubt, the Office of the Former President wishes to state that this claim is false.
The guest house in question, the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG) Research Station Guest House, has been in existence since 1975, and could not possibly have been constructed during the tenure of President Mahama.
The assertion therefore that he influenced its construction is also false.
The Station conducts research into Shea nut and Cashew, to boost production of these two crops in the Brong Ahafo, Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions that constitute the Northern Savannah zone.
Also, the CRIG Research facility includes the guest house that has always provided commercial accommodation services to officials of COCOBOD and any other person that requires its use.
A decision by the Board of COCOBOD to renovate the facility, after many years of use cannot be needless, and does not require the influence of the President of the Republic, as he then was.
The Office of the Former President has noted a regrettable pattern of false and inaccurate information put out by the Chief Executive of COCOBOD intended to slander the former President as a way of covering up bad management practices and decisions identified and highlighted by the NDC Minority in Parliament about the country’s cocoa sector.
Such an unwholesome practice will only serve to detract from the important business of managing the Cocoa sector which is the lifeblood of the Ghanaian economy.
The Office wishes to encourage Mr. Boahen Aidoo to pay greater attention to discharging the weighty responsibility entrusted to him devoid of unnecessary partisanship and mudslinging.
SIGNED
Joyce Bawah Mogtari
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/ghana
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Oyiwa, I said it! The full list of those supposed MPs (Th!evex) should be published and you will see they are all part of those who raped the country to the point where the country nearly collapsed! They are going after ALI BABA (John Ford Mahama) to lead them, why..?? Because he will create the avenue for them to rape the country again..but they LIE BAD, Ghanaians will resist their attempts with the maximum force the country has ever seen before. Women and Children will curse them till the earth opens up and swallows them. They shouldn't even attempt pushing ALI BABA again. Where is even the Special Prosecutor..? NADAA (Showboy)..?? Fire Burn them all!
Massa ; you are correct OOOOOO !!!!!these NDC maggots and donkeys are the usual serial propaganda callers and mouth piece of the NDC and this krooked Jon Mahama; how on earth do you spend such huge sums to rennovate a guest house at Bole where cocoa production is non existant ; even most places and villages where cocoa farms are produced have no guest houses ; why does cocoa board under Dr Opuni spend so much money rennovating a guest house when the same money could have been used to construct; repair roads in the cocoa producing areas ; the answer is simplw ; Jon Mahama thought the NDc would win the elections and the Guest house will then be sold at a knock down price to Jon Mahama and family ; if Jon Mahama can build a house in BOle why does the NDC not show us his house in Bole to prove that he does not need such a Guest house besides the evidence is there ; Dr Opuni gave ghost contracts to Lordina Mahama ; the Cocoa Board was a PIGGY -BANK for Jon Mahama ;the NDC and the Mahama family .JON MAHAMA AND THE NDC ARE NATION WRECKERS AND THEY EXPECT GHANAIANS TO VOTE FOR THEM AGAIN _MASSA YOU BE DREAMING !!!!!BAD !!!!!
Aluta, CC, Akoto and Kwame Yawson are the same person. If GHC5,000,000 of your money was used in renovating this building in the president's hometown would you not be enraged? Constructing this building from scratch and furnishing it would not cost 1/3 of the GHC5million that was claimed. Anybody who has stolleen the nation's money must go to jail and lose all their properties and that of their family members.
NPP YOU HAVE 38 MONTHS LEFT (INCLUDING THIS MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2017)OUT OF YOUR FOUR YEAR TENURE. GET SERIOUS AND LETS SEE THE FRUITS OF YOUR PROMISES. CONTINUING TO BLAME EVERY DAY YOUR OLD DEPARTED WIFE FOR PROBLEMS YOU CLAIM SHE CREATED AND FOR WHICH YOU ASKED HER TO PACK BAG AND BAGGAGE AND LEAVE YOUR HOUSE FOR YOU TO SOLVE WOULD YIELD NO FRUITS. TACKLE THE PROBLEMS HEAD-ON. OK? WHEN YOU SEE A SMALL HEAD CARRY A BIG LOAD NEVER THINK THAT IT WILL BE EASY FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU ASSUME YOU HAVE A MUCH BIGGER HEAD.
THE DAYS OF PLATFORM PROPAGANDA IS OVER.ELECTIONEERING PERIOD IS OVER.GOVERNANCE IS A SERIOUS ENDEAVOUR. 11 MONTHS INTO NPP ADMINISTRATION AND IMPOTENT CEO IS CRYING MAAA ...MAA.... MAAA. HE SHOULD BE DECISIVE. GHANAIANS ARE FED UP WITH THESE COOK AND BULL STORIES EMANATING FROM IMPOTENT GOVERNMENT. WHERE ARE THE FACTORIES, WHERE ARE THE ONE DAM ONE VILLAGE.ONE TALK ONE LIE, IMPOTENT GOVERNMENT
WHAT IS THE LOGIC IN THE ARGUMENT BEING PUT UP BY THE CURRENT GOV'T THAT THE RENOVATION OF THE CRI GUEST HOUSE IN BOLE WAS INFLUENCED BY MAHAMA? IS IT BCOS THE GUEST HOUSE IS CITED IN BOLE, THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S HOME TOWN?. WHY ALWAYS TRY TO LINK THE FORMER PRESIDENT TO SOMETHING THAT YOU YOURSELVES KNOW IS UNTHINKABLE. YOU MEAN THE MAHAMA'S DID NOT HAVE A PLACE IN BOLE TO HAVE THEIR COMFORT BEFORE THE RENOVATION OF THE CRI GUEST HOUSE?. NPP, YOUR LIES HAVE BECOME TOO MUCH FOR GHANAIANS TO BEAR AND YOU MUST LOOK SERIOUS IN GOVT. WHAT EVEN BAFFLES PEOPLE IS THEY(NPP OFFICIALS) WOULD WASTE PRECIOUS TIME TO ORGANIZE PRESS CONFERENCES JUST TO TELL LIES WITHOUT ANY SHRED OF EVIDENCE TO BACK THEIR LIES. A PUBLIC ENTITY HAS RENOVATED OR CONSTRUCTED A GUEST HOUSE IN A PARTICULAR AREA WITHIN THE COUNTRY, AND BECAUSE A FORMER PRESIDENT IS FROM THAT PLACE, THEN HE INFLUENCED IT. WHY CAN'T YOU TAKE GHANAINS SERIOUS A BIT. THIS IS VERY SAD AND DISAPPOINTING.
IN THE MODERN SOCIETY SIN IS GLORIFIED WHILES GOOD DEEDS ARE DEMONISED. NO WONDER ALL THESE ARE HAPPENING IN OUR DEAR COUNTRY GHANA. BUT LIKE GOD ALMIGHTY ASKED OR TOLD CAIN, IF YOU HAD DONE GOOD WOULD SIN BE CHASING YOU. THIS IS WHAT MAHAMA IS FACING AND RIGHTLY PUT IN PERSPECTIVE BY OUR FORMER PRESIDENT, J.J RAWLINGS. THAT NANA ADDO'S GOVERNMENT INHERITED A NATIONAL CORRUTION. NDC COME TO POWER 2020