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It may sound shocking but it really happened. The speech read by Vice President John Dramani Mahama at this year\u2019s May Day Parade was sold to journalists at the Independence Square yesterday.<\/p>\n

Daily Graphic\u2019s Timothy Gobah, who reports from the Presidency, is the journalist who kept copies of the Vice President\u2019s speech, claiming he personally made photocopies of the speech from a nearby hotel at the cost of GH\u00a230 and would therefore charge journalists GH\u00a25 for a copy.<\/p>\n

As if joking, Mr. Gobah denied all reporters at the parade grounds copies of the Vice President\u2019s speech apart from two female reporters from TV 3 and Informer newspaper to whom he sold the speech at GH\u00a25 and GH\u00a21 respectively.<\/p>\n

He then left the grounds with the rest of the copies of the speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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