{"id":1204399,"date":"2022-09-14T16:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/mahama-lied-hes-been-receiving-all-privileges-due-him\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:19:34","slug":"mahama-lied-hes-been-receiving-all-privileges-due-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/mahama-lied-hes-been-receiving-all-privileges-due-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama lied; he&#8217;s been receiving all privileges due him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has denied claims by former President Mahama that the Akufo-Addo government has denied him his benefits as a former statesman.<\/p>\n<p>The former President accused the government of denying him all his entitlement as a former leader of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that government denied him the privilege of enjoying free utilities among others to which he is entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>But at a press briefing in Accra, the NPP\u2019s Director of Communications, Richard Ahiagbah, said the former President has been insincere to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe former President has told blatant lies. We have assembled relevant documents that prove that the former President lied and that, contrary to his claims, he has been indeed been enjoying privileges due him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not want to share these private documents with the public, but they are already out there, so we will share them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-880827 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3FB3D984-73D1-4FAC-9BF7-5143CC1D70CB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"1280\"  \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-880826 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/5E9651FD-FE64-4AC4-8D12-3A449107F952.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"1280\"  \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-880825 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2AC6CD87-3D72-4914-9320-0888B7114F47.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"958\"  \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-880824 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/7C1385F1-4A3C-4D94-8922-2B36A2954AD8.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"1280\"  \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-880823 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/E0987944-14F1-4E87-99CF-B3A30574762F.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"1280\"  \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-880822 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/A9598C4F-7D73-4EF2-8619-967472DCABE9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>John Dramani Mahama in an interview yesterday opened up on the privileges he has been denied despite serving as president of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The former President said having been deprived of his ex-gratia, he is still paying for basic amenities and other utilities \u2013 a situation he feels is unfathomable.<\/p>\n<p>John Dramani stated that the only payment he receives from the state is that of his monthly pension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI receive only my monthly pension like President Kufuor, and ex-President Rawlings was receiving [it] before he died. That is all I get\u201d, he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"EPCHWxVQDB4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Ghana at a crossroads&#039;: John Dramani Mahama&#039;s full speech\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPCHWxVQDB4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has denied claims by former President Mahama that the Akufo-Addo government has denied him his benefits as a former statesman. The former President accused the government of denying him all his entitlement as a former leader of the country. He also claimed that government denied him the privilege of enjoying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204399","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\/1204399","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=1204399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}