[ 2016-11-30 ]

Gh¢500k Bribe Saga: Bugri Naabu not worth Gh¢10 - Nketia
The General Secretary of the governing National
Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia,
has punched holes into a bribery allegation
leveled against President John Mahama.

The NPP on Tuesday, November 29 alleged that
Mahama and his sibling attempted inducing its
Northern regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu
with two SUVs, GHS3.3 million, GHS500, 000 in
October this year.

The said goodies, according to Mustapha Hamid, the
spokesperson of the flag bearer of the NPP, Nana
Akufo-Addo were meant to cajole Mr. Naabu to ditch
the party and launch scathing tribalistic assault
on Akufo-Addo, labeling him as intolerant to
people from the Northern extraction.

“It’s terribly sad. This country is in serious
trouble, we need to rescue this country from
serious trouble. The presidency has been so
depraved, so muddied, so dirty that I tell you in
all sincerity as a Ghanaian that I feel terribly
sad as a Ghanaian,” he said.

But reacting to the allegations on Wednesday, Mr.
Nketia said Mr. Naabu lacks the necessary
qualities that will compel Mahama to seek his help
in the race to the Flagstaff House.

According to him, claims of the president and his
sibling bribing Mr. Naabu is incomprehensible as
he is not worth even Gh¢10.

“…If I have Gh¢10 to pay or to bribe anybody
to speak for me, it is not Bugri Naabu that I’ll
be wasting that money on. NPP itself knows," said
Nketia in an interview with Accra-based Class FM.

"And this issue where he cannot even speak for
himself shows that he cannot even be speaking for
anybody. A person who cannot even speak for
himself, will not be able to speak for another
person. I think that if you are a person who
people would want to buy, then you must
demonstrate that you can even speak on matters
concerning you."

Meanwhile, a legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong has
urged the presidency to officially respond to the
bribery allegations as “these are serious claims
against the president of the country.”

“It is a rebuttable presumption; action must be
taken against the claims or they could be assumed
to be true,” he added.

Source - Starrfm

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