{"id":1203425,"date":"2022-09-13T13:26:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/akufo-addo-has-denied-me-my-emoluments-former-president-mahama\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:26:43","slug":"akufo-addo-has-denied-me-my-emoluments-former-president-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/akufo-addo-has-denied-me-my-emoluments-former-president-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo Has Denied Me My Emoluments \u2013 Former President Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ab119a31f3704b43bccbda042fb0b726\" alt=\"Former President Mahama is a Carrier of Contagious Corruption hence Unfit for the Presidency\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">Former President John Dramani Mahama says the Nana Akufo-Addo led government has refused to honour the entitlement due him as former Head of State.<\/span><span class=\"ql-cursor\"> <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">In an exclusive interview with TV3, Mr Mahama disclosed that all the perks he is entitled to, such as an office space, payment of his domestic staff, and paying for his utility bills among others have not been provided to him as the constitution dictates by the sitting president.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">The former President says he pays for all those from his own pocket, adding that he has received no ex-gratia from the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government since leaving office in 2016.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">\u201cI pay the electricity bill for my house and my office, and I pay the water bills for my house and my office. I live in my own accommodation so the state does not pay me anything for accommodation. They haven\u2019t given me an office so I rent an office at East Cantonment and I pay the rent myself.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">\u201cI pay my own fuel, the state doesn\u2019t give me fuel, I pay my own domestic staff, I pay my own medical bills, I pay my own air tickets when I travel,\u201d he said.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">Mr Mahama\u2019s comment is in response to an allegation made by NPP\u2019s Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe, to the effect that the former president was paid an amount of GH\u20b514million in 2013 as ex-gratia.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">\u201cThat\u2019s an absolute lie. He says in 2013 14 million was paid into my ADB account. I have my 2013 Bank Statement here and I will let you look through and see if there is any 14 million payment. The only payment made to me by the government i.e Accountant General was my salary arrears of GH\u20b5230,000\u201d, the former President rebutted.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">He further explains that the claims that he received privileges and perks worth Ghc15million are absolutely untrue.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent;\">\u201cI receive only my monthly pension like President Kufour and President Rawlings was receiving until he died. That\u2019s all I get\u201d, he added.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nJohn Dramani Mahama<br \/>\nMahama<br \/>\nNana Akufo-Addo<br \/>\nTV3<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama says the Nana Akufo-Addo led government has refused to honour the entitlement due him as former Head of State. In an exclusive interview with TV3, Mr Mahama disclosed that all the perks he is entitled to, such as an office space, payment of his domestic staff, and paying for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[648,11843,25633,1125,275],"class_list":["post-1203425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-akufoaddo","tag-denied","tag-emoluments","tag-mahama","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203425","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=1203425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}