{"id":1200864,"date":"2022-09-08T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/mahama-denies-receiving-gh%c2%a214m-as-ex-gratia-in-2013\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T15:45:40","slug":"mahama-denies-receiving-gh%c2%a214m-as-ex-gratia-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/mahama-denies-receiving-gh%c2%a214m-as-ex-gratia-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama denies receiving GH\u00a214m as ex-gratia in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The office of the former President, John Dramani Mahama has rejected claims that he took GH\u00a2 14 million as ex-gratia payment in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Special Aide to the former President, Joyce Bawah Mogtari clarified that the former President \u201cnever took any such ex-gratia payment of GH\u00a214 million in 2013 or at any other time during his 25 years of service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office was responding to the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge the public to ignore the unintelligent rants of the said Kwame Baffoe who has gained notoriety for fabricating and propagating falsehood on behalf of Nana Akufo\u2013Addo against John Mahama. His claims are false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be surprising if any such payment had been made to the former President and has not been reflected in any of the numerous Auditor General\u2019s reports presented to Parliament since 2013,\u201d portions of the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It challenged the offices of the Chief of Staff and the Presidency to provide proof of the former President receiving the said amount in ex-gratia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe challenge the office of the Chief of Staff and the Presidency to provide proof of the payment of any such amount and stop using idle miscreants among its ranks to spread falsehood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, the former President promised that the next National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will champion a review of the 1992 constitution to tackle issues such as ex-gratia payments and reformation of the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879062\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-05-at-6.40.13-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1536\"  \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-879063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-05-at-6.40.11-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1554\"  \/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office of the former President, John Dramani Mahama has rejected claims that he took GH\u00a2 14 million as ex-gratia payment in 2013. A statement signed by the Special Aide to the former President, Joyce Bawah Mogtari clarified that the former President \u201cnever took any such ex-gratia payment of GH\u00a214 million in 2013 or at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}