The NPP has summoned Deputy General Secretary Nana Obiri Boahen before the party's Steering Committee after he was captured in an audio conversation saying the Presidency gifted the party GHC50 billion in 2017 to conduct its National Annual Delegates Conference held at Cape Coast.
The ruling NPP in a quick response, issued a press statement, insisting "no such thing happened and that, the claims are a palpable falsehood".
Per the audio conversation, it appears NPP's Nana Obiri Boahen was tricked to voice out his sentiments and ill-feeling about the party in a private chat with an opposition NDC member, popularly known as "Kwaku Skirt".
Nana Obiri Boahen, in the said conversation, lamented how unfairly he was being treated as an official of the governing party, while his colleagues are supposedly grabbing and making economic gains from the party’s incumbency.
GHC50 billion allegation
In the leaked audio, Nana Obiri Boahen reveals how he was given a paltry GH¢5,000 as a member of the resolution committee out of the GH¢50 billion that the Presidency gifted the party.
“When we were going to Cape Coast the other time, I was given GH¢3,000 as a member of the Resolution Committee and an additional GH¢2,000 for fuel. Meanwhile, the Flagstaff House gave the party an amount of GH¢50 billionâ€, he alleged.
He also bemoaned how he is being ill-treated by the party despite his selfless service since 1992.
“Till date, I don’t even have an office at the party’s headquarters. To be frank, I have been using my own private car, and the party has not given me any official car for my use as Deputy General Secretary. I buy my own fuel. And even on official trips abroad, I’ll be left to my fate.
When I recently went to Germany, it was an NPP Member who bought a ticket for me. I went to Spain, Dortmund it was an individual that processed my trip. I do virtually everything, and I don’t remember the last time I received a monthly salary from the party.
I’m only watching them; what is happening now is called “grabbing grabbing†that is what they are doing. I have not even been contacted by any Minister for any contract or whatsoever. I have been handling late J.B Danquah Adu’s case from day one, and I have been using my own resources for court, and even give tips for Journalists. Nobody cares about that case.
I have been following up the case and I can tell you I have an impending trip abroad and I even had to reschedule my flight to make it to court on 21st, March in J.B’s case. I’ll have to pay the penalty for rescheduling that flight, and I’ll have to bear that cost alone.â€
Meanwhile, after the audio went viral, the maverick NPP Deputy General Secretary, admitted that was his voice captured in the audio, but he claims those were deliberately manufactured lies to help him get information from "Kweku Skirt", the known NDC activist he had the conversation with.
Irrespective of the fact that Nana Obiri Boahen has admitted that his words were lies, the Acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, in a press statement issued late Tuesday, said the NPP has "tasked the Steering Committee" to get to the bottom of the issue.
"Nana Obiri Boahen himself has subsequently admitted to the falsity of his baseless allegation. Nonetheless, the party takes a serious view of his unfortunate comments and has accordingly tasked the Steering Committee to immediately look into the matter and make appropriate recommendations," the statement added.
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