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Today’s investigations show that Presidential Staffer, Stan Dogbe, is the person behind the Independence Day mess that has subjected the Ghanaian presidency to global ridicule.

The official brochure of Ghana’s 59th Independence anniversary had visiting Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, being given the tag as the Ghanaian President.

Ironically, it took a Kenyan newspaper, The Nation, to detect that unpardonable slip.

And today can state on authority that the 59th year Independence brochure that covered the programme was authored by Stan Dogbe and not the Information Service Department (ISD) headed by Francis Kwarteng Arthur.

Indeed when Stan realised the mess he had caused, he asked the Director of ISD to own up as a decoy to avoid the brash of the presidency and the Ghanaian people.

And that was the reason why the ISD boss last Tuesday issued a press statement, taking full responsibility of the embarrassing situation.

Some workers of ISD however, took to social media distancing the Information Service Department from the unpardonable mistake.

Stan had been at the receiving end because of the obvious consternation he had caused the presidency in the past and therefore thought any other such misdemeanour on his part could possibly cause his exit from the Flagstaff House.

The head of ISD was unilaterally taken from the Flagstaff House and planted at the Information Service Department to do the bidding of the presidential staffer.  And so when Stan called for Francis Arthur to own up for that grievous mistake, it was a call that he (Arthur) could not resent.

“It was a call to duty and Arthur had to oblige even if reluctantly, lest he loses his lucrative job,” a source at the presidency hinted this paper.

Hence Stan’s clever decoy plot to deflect the real issues in the March 6 faux pas.

Stan could play cunning on that occasion, but not those other Mahama die-hards at the Flagstaff House who believe Stan Dogbe’s reckless behaviours are hurting the president and his administration.

According to this paper’s further investigations, the Independence error-ridden brochure was originally schemed to embarrass President Mahama during his recent State of the Nation Address on the floor of Parliament where his saboteurs wanted him to deliver an ambiguous address to the nation.

And when that plot failed, a source close to the First Family said those saboteurs targeted the 59th Independence anniversary to cause the president an embarrassment, hence the total mess which was the first time since the attainment of the country’s independence that happened on that day.

Today investigations have established from sorties at the seat of government that there was a near stand-off between these blocs and the president when the former stalled some oil deals somewhere in October last year with a Norwegian oil tycoon which deals were not in the interest of the country.

And since then, the blocs, according to the sources, swore to make the president pay for “such sins” and the plot had been to use the president’s own people against him.

The one whom they found gullible to fall to the plot is Stan Dogbe.  Indeed Stan, our sorties at the Flagstaff House have confirmed, has fallen to the ploy of the president’s adversaries.

Most of the president’s people, this paper gathered, were unanimous in their thinking that it was time the president showed Stan Dogbe the exit.

That explains the virtual silence of the president’s aides and communicators to defend the embarrassing situation.

But, according to our sources, this is a major dilemma facing the president as he stands the risk of losing the trust of most of his trusted allies if he leaves Stan off the hook.

The source noted that the get-the-Stan-out chorus has become more intense even if it’s on the quiet.

“This is because most of the things Stan has done are not worth defending any longer and even have the potential of wrecking the chances of the president in this year’s elections.

The very recent Stan scheming thus seems to be drawing much anger not only from his colleague aides but the president himself has been driven into the fray because of the obvious repercussions on his second term bidding.

This act together with others he had committed in the past is really irking the nerve centre of the presidency with the popular decision being that it’s about time the president jettisoned the arrogant aide,” the source opined.

According to the source, that was the level of anger simmering within the presidency.

“It is believed within government circles that Stan is doing the bidding of some power blokes within the ruling government/party,” the source hinted.

It will be recalled that Stan was in the news last year for bad reasons.

For instance, he was alleged to have assaulted and damaged a camera of a reporter of Ghanaian Times newspaper after the latter had gone to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra to take some photographs of his colleagues with the parliamentary press corps who survived in the presidential accident on the Tema-Kpone road in the Greater Accra region.

And apparently that action by Stan caused public uproar where prominent citizens of this country including the Director of School of Communication, Legon, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, called for his dismissal.