{"id":449133,"date":"2017-12-21T19:03:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/100k-extortion-alan-did-no-wrong-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T19:03:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:03:39","slug":"100k-extortion-alan-did-no-wrong-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/100k-extortion-alan-did-no-wrong-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"100k extortion: Alan did no wrong \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/19202374.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akufo Addo Address\" title=\"Akufo Addo Address\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513883019_818_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">President Nana Akufo- Addo has stated that, officials at the Ministry of Trade and Industry did no wrong in commercializing the Presidential Table at the recent Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA).<\/p>\n<p>The Minority had accused the Ministry of Trade and Industry of charging expatriates between 25,000 and 100,000 dollars, to offer them seats close to the President at  the  Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA)<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the fees charged at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards were not the kind of fees approved by Parliament, and that the monies were also not accounted for in the Internally Generated Funds (IGF) of the Ministry\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>However,  in a statement, the government said, \u201c the facts, as reported to the president, do not disclose any wrong doing on the part of the minister of any government official&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President has therefore asked the minister to put those facts before the Ghanaian people,\u201d a statement signed by the Information minister said Thursday   <br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"$100k for seat: Trade Ministry did no wrong \u2013 Government defends\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/367685151\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-PEvBVj4sLb0GuoeIM1qw&amp;show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7068965517241379\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_53837\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo President Nana Akufo- Addo has stated that, officials at the Ministry of Trade and Industry did no wrong in commercializing the Presidential Table at the recent Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA). 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