The report of Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) which recommended that President Nana Akufo-Addo withdraws the nomination of George Oduro as a Deputy Minister is turning out to be a false alarm.
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, on Thursday, drew the attention to the BNI report which recommended that the nominee who it believed had been involved in a cocaine case in Canada be withdrawn to avoid any future embarrassment to the country.
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One George Oduro alias George Best Oduro, George Kwame Oduro and Kay, according to the BNI investigative report was on May 19, 2008, mentioned as a principal suspect in a cocaine syndicate.
"In respect of the nominees, I am compelled to request that the president should consider withdrawing the nomination of one of the appointees named George Oduro because there is a damning BNI report on him,â€Â Mr Iddrisu whose side had boycotted the vetting process stated on the floor of Parliament.
But the Deputy Agric Minister-designate has denied BNI report saying he has never dealt in cocaine and neither has he been to Canada in his entire life.
"I have never ever travelled on any Canadian passport, neither have I ever dealt in any narcotics trade," he told Joy News Editor Dzifa Bampoh on Thursday.
Wondering why the BNI would make such conclusions without hearing him first, he stated that his full name was George Boahene Kofi Oduro and not George Kwame Oduro or any of the names captured in the BNI report.
As it stands, it is turning to be case of a mistaken identity as the drug suspect mentioned by the BNI may not be the nominee but his namesake.
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