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  • Claims that Bawumia’s convoy was blocked on Nkawkaw-Kumasi Highway false – Spokesperson

    Spokesperson for Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr. Gideon Boako, has denied reports that the Vice President’s convoy was obstructed by irate youths on the Nkawkaw-Kumasi highway on Saturday, May 4, 2024.

    In a May 5, 2024 statement, Dr. Boako clarified that Dr. Bawumia was not present on the said road at any point during the week.

    According to him, the Vice President had been in the Western Region on the May 1 and 2, then proceeded to the Western North region on May 3, and arrived in Kumasi around 10 pm on the same day.

    On the morning of Saturday, May 4, Dr. Bawumia departed from Kumasi to Accra by air, thus not travelling via the Nkawkaw-Kumasi road.

    Dr. Boako further explained that the roadblock at Dadieso was the result of an accident involving a fuel tanker that had overturned on the road.

    The youth took initiative to block the road as a safety measure to avert potential casualties in case of an explosion, maintaining the blockade until the arrival of the fire service and other security agencies who then cleared the road for use.

    Read the full statement below:

    I have observed a video being circulated, claiming that some angry youth blocked the Vice President’s convoy on the Nkawkaw-Kumasi highway on Saturday, 4th May. This claim is entirely false.

    The Vice President did not travel on that road during the entire week.

    He was in the Western region on the 1st and 2nd of May, moved to the Western North region on the 3rd of May, and reached Kumasi around 10 pm on the same day.

    He left Kumasi for Accra by air on the morning of Saturday, 4th May, and did not use the Nkawkaw-Kumasi road.

    The blockade was due to an accident where a loaded fuel tanker had fallen on the main road.

    The youth, aiming to prevent any large-scale casualties in the event of an explosion, blocked the road until it was cleared by the fire service and other security agencies for safe use by commuters.

  • Bawumia flies to Estonia for digitalisation talks

    Bawumia flies to Estonia for digitalisation talks

    The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is currently undertaking a working visit to the Republic of Estonia from January 23 to January 27, 2024.

    This information is conveyed in a press release issued by his spokesperson, Dr. Gideon Boako, on January 23.

    The press release notes that Estonia, recognized as one of the most advanced digitalized countries globally, will be the focus of the Vice President’s visit.

    During his stay, Dr. Bawumia aims to assess Estonia’s digital economy in comparison to Ghana’s.

    While in Estonia, Vice President Bawumia is scheduled to engage in bilateral meetings with key figures, including Mr. Alar Karis, President of the Republic of Estonia, Ms. Kaja Kailas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia, Mr. Luukas Ilves, Undersecretary for Digital Transformation at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digitalization, and Mr. Raigo Uukkivi, Director General of the Estonian Tax and Customs Board, as outlined in Dr. Boako’s statement.

    The press release concludes by stating that the Vice President is expected to return to Ghana on Saturday, January 27, 2024.

    “While in Estonia, Vice President Bawumia is expected to hold bilateral meetings with Mr Alar Karis, President of the Republic of Estonia, Ms Kaja Kailas, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia, Mr Luukas Ilves, Undersecretary for Digital Transformation, Government CIO at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digitalization, as well as Mr Raigo Uukkivi, Director General of the Estonian Tax and Customs Board,” Dr Boako stated.

    According to the press release, “The Vice President returns to Ghana on Saturday, 27th January, 2024.”

  • Christians will vote for Bawumia in 2024 – Dr Gideon Boako assures

    Christians will vote for Bawumia in 2024 – Dr Gideon Boako assures

    The Spokesperson for Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Gideon Boako, has dismissed claims that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will lose the Christian vote if it elects Dr. Bawumia as its Presidential candidate for the 2024 elections.

    Some critics have argued that Christians will not vote for Dr. Bawumia because he is a Muslim.

    But Dr Boako, who is a Christian and a Financial Economist, says it is a false assertion that Christians will not support the Vice President when the NPP chooses him to lead them into 2024 elections.

    According to him, Dr Bawumia is a man of all people and has a good rapport with the Christian community.

    “I’ve never seen a President or a Vice President in Ghana that Christians invite him to their programmes more than Bawumia…Currently, Christians invite Bawumia to their programmes more than any other political figure in this country,” he said on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ morning show.

    He added that Dr Bawumia is a scholar who understands both the Bible and the Quran.

    “He (Dr. Bawumia) understands the Bible as a scholar. He understands the Quran as a scholar,” Dr. Boako said.

  • NPP has not disappointed Ghanaians – Dr. Gideon Boako

    NPP has not disappointed Ghanaians – Dr. Gideon Boako

    The Spokesperson for Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Gideon Boako, has rejected the claims that President Nana Akufo-Addo and his government have failed Ghanaians.

    He said the President had not delivered on all his promises to Ghanaians, but he had done better than the previous government with his transformative policies that boosted Ghana’s economy.

    “I admit that President Akufo-Addo and the NPP government haven’t done everything we promised to do and we haven’t also brought Heaven to Ghana, but we have performed far better than our political opponents,” he said on Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ programme.

    “I do not accept that false narrative that the NPP has failed . . . If the economy has failed, then we, the NPP, don’t have to even go into the elections in 2024 . . . the economy has not failed,” he stressed.

    Dr Gideon Boako urged, first, NPP delegates to vote overwhelmingly for the Vice President to become their flagbearer and, second, all Ghanaian voters to elect him President of Ghana.

    Source: The Independent Ghana

  • Bawumia is the vice president with the greatest impact since 1992 – Spokesman

    Bawumia is the vice president with the greatest impact since 1992 – Spokesman

    According to Dr. Gideon Boako, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s spokesperson, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will run for the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearership when nominations are opened.

    He told Adom TV that his boss was ready to throw his hat into a race that included the likes of Alan Kyerematen, Kennedy Agyapong, Kwabena Agyepong, Francis Addai-Nimoh, Kofi Konadu Apraku and Boakye Agyarko.

    Explaining the weight that Bawumia brings to the race, Boako said his boss was in politics strictly to serve unlike others who get in to amass wealth, stressing that the NPP and Ghana needs such a leader at this time.

    He also stressed that with all the signs showing that the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will field former president John Dramani Mahama in the 2024 elections, the NPP needed a Bawumia-type personality to match the opposition.

    “In 2024, the NDC will surely bring Mahama, so we should get personality who can measure up to Mahama and then also we need to look at the level of knowledge the candidate brings on board.

    “Unofficially, all Ghanaians believe that the vice president has demonstrated beyond his office and has been more impactful in modern-day political season is Bawumia. He did not just play a supportive role but he had major involvement,” Boako stressed.

    Bawumia is Ghana’s sixth vice president under the 1992 Constitution. He occupies an office previously held by Kow Nkensen Arkaah, John Evans Atta Mills, Alhaji Aliu Mahama and John Dramani Mahama and Kwei Bekoe Amissah-Arthur.

    Dr. Boako said all major achievements of the current government, listing among others: Zipline drone, Free SHS, mobilemoney interoperability, NABCo, digitization, Agenda 111, ambulances, before adding: “all these ideas and things, you cannot take Bawumia out.”

    The NDC has a May 2023 date to hold its presidential and parliamentary primaries whereas in the case of the NPP, reports say the national leadership of the party and its caucus in parliament wanted an early congress which the presidency is opposed to.

  • No associate of Bawumia has stopped anyone from meeting you – Karbo replies Ken Agyapong

    Former Lawra MP Anthony Karbo has denied allegations made by Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central, that Karbo and others prevented Agyapong from interacting with people while he was touring the northern regions.

    Agyapong, who is vying for the position of NPP flagbearer, is alleged to have accused Karbo and other people, whom he claims are Bawumia associates, of preventing him (Agyapong) from meeting supporters in the area.

    Karbo highlighted that neither he nor the vice president’s aides had committed any such crime in a post on his verified social media account that addressed some of the accusations made against his person.

    “It was also clear that none of the associates of the Vice President or myself had attempted to influence any party official in the North not to attend the meeting called by Hon. Kennedy Agyapong,” Karbo said of a conciliatory meeting that had been called on the allegations.

    Other denials he made related to his involvement in tribal politics, ownership of a house in the United States and the fact that he had reportedly apologized to AAgyapong at the said meeting.

    Read his full post below:

    On the Matter of Hon Kennedy Agyapong: His Northern Region Tour and Issues Arrising.

     

    I have become aware of a viral audio recording of Hon. Kennedy Agyapong in which the MP was campaigning in the Upper East Region. The audio, among other things, attempted to accuse me of embarking on Tribal Campaign, impugning corruption on my part as a Former MP and Deputy Minister, and suggested underhand dealings of persons believed to be working for Vice President to prevent the Hon. Kennedy Agyapong from meeting Party members in the North.

    In the interest of party unity and peace, a meeting was arranged with Hon. Kennedy Agyapong to delve into the accusations/allegations and also clarify the misinformation. The meeting was attended by Mr KT Hammond, Fred Oware, Dr Gideon Boako and myself.

    It was a good and fruitful meeting and in the end it was clarified at the meeting that, I, Anthony Karbo had NOT embarked on any Tribal Campaign as alleged and wish to put on record that TRIBAL POLITICS is not part of my personality and political activism. All my life I have enjoyed the support of persons irrespective of where they hail from and reciprocated same.

    The Hon. Kennedy Agyapong himself will attest to this fact given my long standing relationship with him spanning decades which is public knowledge.

    I wish to state categorically that i own no such property in the USA as alleged and the claim of impugning corruption against me is non-existent.

    It was also clear that none of the associates of the Vice President or myself had attempted to influence any party official in the North not to attend the meeting called by Hon. Kennedy Agyapong.

    Also, contrary to a published story on Net2tvonline that the meeting was a platform for me and the Vice President’s office to apologise to Hon Kennedy Agyapong, I wish to state without equivocation that no one at the said meeting apologised to the other. It was a brotherly family meeting intended to clear the misinformation and both pledging to organise ourselves in a more peaceful and docorous manner as we approach the internal contest.

    We are one family and we commit to unite in one accord for the betterment of the New Patriotic Party.

    Anthony Abayifaa Karbo
    Fmr. MP and Deputy Minister

  • Somebody called to enquire about ‘appearance fee’ to see Bawumia – Dr. Gideon Boako

    Dr. Gideon Boako, the spokesperson for the Vice President, has indicated that somebody contacted him earlier this year, claiming to be an investor and wanted to enquire about the ‘appearance fee’ to meet his boss, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

    According to him, he did not probe further to know the background of the investor “because it was of no interest to me.”

    Dr. Gideon Boako while speaking on Asempa FM’s ‘Ekosii Sen’ programme on Monday, November 14 stated that he spoke to the investor on phone.

    “The exact day, I may not be able to tell, but they contacted me this year, 2022. I laughed and asked, an appearance fee? Why? is it that Kotoko and Hearts of Oak are going to have a super clash,” he said while laughing.

    Dr Gideon Boako further stated that the supposed investor asked whether the ‘appearance fee’ is a norm, to which he replied, “no, that cannot happen. If that was the case, then I am not a poor man. I told them the Vice President as I know him, will never entertain such a thing. If you are his staff and entertain such a thing, you do that at your own risk.

    “I told them that well, I do not know that person, but I will say categorically that the person did that on his own behalf and not on behalf of the Vice President because as far as I know the Vice President, it will never happen.

    “I said to them that if the Vice President gets to know of that, he will recommend for the person to be questioned by the security agencies. It was only yesterday that Tiger Eye revealed the name of the person they were talking about,” Dr. Boako explained further.

    Charles Adu Boahen, the dismissed Minister of State in charge of Finance had earlier alleged that the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia will require $200,000 as an appearance fee to meet prospective investors.

    This was revealed by Anas Aremeyaw Anas in his latest undercover documentary dubbed “Galamsey Economy”.

    The investigative journalist noted that Adu Boahen, in the undercover piece told his Tiger Eye PI team who posed as investors that Dr. Bawumia would also require some positions from the investor for his siblings to get his backing and influence in establishing a business in Ghana.

    But Dr. Bawumia in a statement on Monday, November 14, denied the accusations and called for an investigation into the allegations.

  • Dr Bawumia and Charles Adu Boahen only meet at Economic Management meetings – Dr Gideon Boako

    The spokesperson of the Vice President, Dr. Gideon Boako has refuted the allegation attributed to the dismissed Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Mr. Charles Adu Boahen.

    Mr. Adu Boahen is alleged to have said, in a yet-to-be-aired under-cover expose by ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, that Vice President Bawumia needed $200 as an appearance fee to meet prospective investors.

    The documentary is dubbed “Galamsey Economy” and is expected to be premiered on Monday at the Accra International Conference Centre.

    In the documentary, Mr. Adu Boahen is said to have told the undercover investigators that Dr. Bawumia would also require some positions from the investor for his siblings to get his backing and influence in establishing a business in Ghana.

    According to Dr. Gideon Boako, he does not recollect any private meeting between Mr. Adu Boahen and the Vice President.

    Speaking to JoyNews on Monday, November 14, 2022, Dr Boako stated that apart from attending an EMT (Economic Management Team) meeting, there hasn’t been any engagement.

    “I have no idea why he said so. I work so closely with the Vice President, I do not remember the last time Charles Adu Boahen visited the Vice President’s house. I am always with the Vice President – from morning to evening, and I don’t remember the last time I even saw Charles in his house. I don’t remember the last time Charles had a private conversation with Dr. Bawumia,” he said.

    Due to the above explanations provided, he stated that what the Vice President is being accused of is false and weird, adding that “I do not see the head and tail of it.”

    Earlier, Dr. Bawumia denied the accusations and called for the Minister to be sacked and investigated by the Office of the Special Prosecutor.

    The Spokesperson said the call for a full-blown investigation into the matter is in place.

    Meanwhile, President Nana Akufo-Addo has terminated the appointment of the Minister of State at the Ministry of Finance, Charles Adu Boahen, with immediate effect.

    In a statement on Monday from the Presidency, the Director of Communications, Eugene Arhin, said, “After being made aware of the allegations levelled against the Minister in the exposé, ‘Galamsey Economy’, the President spoke to Mr Adu Boahen, after which he took the decision to terminate his appointment, and also to refer the matter to the Special Prosecutor for further investigations.”

    He said the President thanked Mr. Adu Boahen for his strong services to his government since his appointment in 2017 and wished him well in his future endeavours.

    Source: Complex.com

  • Bawumia isn’t like that – Adu-Boahen confesses to veep’s incorruptibility in Anas exposé

    Dr. Gideon Boako, an aide to Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, has contradicted claims by the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Charles Adu Boahen, that the Vice President will need US$200,000 as an appearance fee from any investor.

    According to him, the Vice President is smart and discreet whenever he is dealing with individuals seeking to invest in the economy.

    Charles Adu Boahen had allegedly told investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, in an undercover recording that Bawumia required about USD200,000 as an appearance fee from an investor to get his backing and influence in establishing a business in Ghana.

    The celebrated investigative journalist in a November 14, 2022 post on his Facebook timeline stated that when his Tiger Eye PI team met with the Minister of State in charge of Finance in UAE, he spoke about Bawumia’s financial demands before agreeing to assist any investor.

    “You mean, like appearance fees and stuff? I mean he, himself (the Vice President), if you give him some (USD) 200,000 or something as a token, as thank you, appreciation, that’s fine. He’s not really, he’s not really (like) that. All he needs is to worry about his campaign money in 2020,” Charles Adu Boahen is quoted to have said

    But when the Tiger Eye team got in touch with Dr Gideon Boako, the Economic Advisor and Spokesperson at the Office of the Vice President, he denied that the Vice President has authorized or discussed with anybody to solicit funds for his political ambitions or to accept an appearance fee/token for an investor to meet with him.

    “So, on top of my head and having been with him closely, I will say no. I know how discreet he, the Vice President, is and he is smart and he wouldn’t even dare do such a thing,” Dr Boako remarked.

    Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ undercover documentary dubbed ‘Galamsey Economy’ shows at the Accra International Conference Centre at 4.00 PM.