{"id":1200970,"date":"2022-09-08T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/i-never-took-ex-gratia-payment-of-%c2%a214m-in-2013-mahama\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:06:35","slug":"i-never-took-ex-gratia-payment-of-%c2%a214m-in-2013-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/08\/i-never-took-ex-gratia-payment-of-%c2%a214m-in-2013-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I never took ex-gratia payment of \u00a214m in 2013\u2019 &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Former President, John Dramani Mahama has denied allegations that he collected GH\u00a2 14 million as ex-gratia payment in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahama said such fabrications are propagated to dent his credibility.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Special Aide to the former President, Joyce Bawah Mogtari\u00a0on Monday, September 5, said he has never collected such an amount as ex-gratia in his political life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1XERd0J2soM4riGJSYNB8ze7m2s8oC9P-\/preview\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, ex-gratia payments are a matter of public record and are available in the office of the Chief of Staff or the Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department,\u201d portions of the release stated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" data-id=\"10032150508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Family-of-the-late-A.B.-Crentsil-vist-John-Mahama-5.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018I never took ex-gratia payment of \u00a214m in 2013\u2019 - Mahama\" class=\"wp-image-10032150508 lazy\"  data- title=\"\u2018I never took ex-gratia payment of \u00a214m in 2013\u2019 - Mahama\"\/><figcaption>Former President, John Dramani Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The release wants such allegations to be ignored.<\/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<figure class=\"wp-container-4 wp-block-gallery-3 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"10032133891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/John-Dramani-Mahama.jpeg\" alt=\"\u2018I never took ex-gratia payment of \u00a214m in 2013\u2019 - Mahama\" class=\"wp-image-10032133891 lazy\"  data- title=\"\u2018I never took ex-gratia payment of \u00a214m in 2013\u2019 - Mahama\"\/><figcaption>Former President, John Dramani Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\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>The statement also 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<figure class=\"wp-container-6 wp-block-gallery-5 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-id=\"10032124143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/John-Mahama-Sunyani-Queen-mother-12-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018I never took ex-gratia payment of \u00a214m in 2013\u2019 - Mahama\" class=\"wp-image-10032124143 lazy\"  data- title=\"\u2018I never took ex-gratia payment of \u00a214m in 2013\u2019 - Mahama\"\/><figcaption>Former President, John Dramani Mahama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, the former President has 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>As a result of this promise, the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC alleges that he received the said amount as ex-gratia in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Abronye DC thus suggested that the former President cannot be trusted on the issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President, John Dramani Mahama has denied allegations that he collected GH\u00a2 14 million as ex-gratia payment in 2013. Mr. Mahama said such fabrications are propagated to dent his credibility. A statement signed by the Special Aide to the former President, Joyce Bawah Mogtari\u00a0on Monday, September 5, said he has never collected such an amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200970","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\/1200970","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=1200970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}