Efforts to tag my administration as corrupt will not work-Akufo-Adoo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said efforts by the National Democratic Congress, NDC, to tag his administration as corrupt will not work.

According to him, the desperate effort to stigmatise his government with corruption is not going to work.”

The Minority in Parliament has on many occasion accused the NPP government of corruption.

The most recent is the Ministry of Trade and Industry which has been accused by the Minority of selling access to the president for $100,000 at a Ghana Expatriate Business awards ceremony.

Another involve the alleged bloating of the budget of the Ministry of Special Development Initiatives, prominent among the items on that budget being the allocation of GHS800,000 for the construction of a website.

The sector minister, Mavis Hawa Koomson, has come out to explain that it was an error.

However, the president told a durbar in Koforidua on Friday, 22 December, that all the attempts by the NDC to sully his administration with corruption in his first year have failed.

“There are two hardworking men in my office who were accused of corruption – my two deputies. The CID looked into it but there was nothing. CHRAJ, with a boss John Mahama appointed, also looked into the allegations but there was nothing there.”

“Now there a saying Alan Kyeremanten also went and extorted money but we looked into it and there is nothing there… The desperate effort to stigmatise my government with corruption is not going to work,” he added.