{"id":1211651,"date":"2022-09-27T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/presidential-staffer-allegedly-deported-upon-arrival-at-jfk\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:51:47","slug":"presidential-staffer-allegedly-deported-upon-arrival-at-jfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/presidential-staffer-allegedly-deported-upon-arrival-at-jfk\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Staffer Allegedly Deported Upon Arrival At JFK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/9e00ed0c8ff34360ad66c5b04d318fb0\" alt=\"Presidential Staffer deported from US \u2026thrown out despite his diplomatic passport \u2013 The Herald Ghana\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">An executive assistant to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe, paid close to US$10,000 for a trip to the US in mid-September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Tagoe paid the aforementioned sum for the trip, which was reportedly scheduled to last from September 13 to September 21, according to a report by Larry Dogbey, publisher of the privately owned Herald Newspaper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The article further stated that the Jubilee House employee was deported despite possessing a diplomatic passport for undisclosed reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">In a Facebook post, the presidential aide denied having a diplomatic passport and being deported. He also expressed the intention to sue the journalist for the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">In reaction, Larry Dogbey posted information about a KLM flight on Facebook, claiming that Tagoe had spent as much as US$9,600 for the entire trip.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">You left Ghana on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, onboard KLM through Schipol Amsterdam to New York, according to a portion of Dogbey&#8217;s post. You flew back the following day, on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, on a Delta Airlines direct flight from New York to Accra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u201cYou wanted to come back onboard same KLM through Schipol on Wednesday, 21 September 2022. Who buys a ticket for nearly UD$10,000 to see New York City through the windows of an airport? Waiting for your lawyers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The presidential staffer offered another clarification on his Facebook wall which read: \u201cSo I arrived at John F Kennedy International Airport on Delta Airlines flight DL 047 from Amsterdam and I was arrested and deported at Dallas, Texas International Airport, onboard a United Airlines according to Larry Dogbey and The Herald Newspaper? We shall meet very soon wai.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">See full post <\/span>here<span style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">.<\/span><\/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\">    ,  .   ,     .       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Tagoe paid the aforementioned sum for the trip, which was reportedly scheduled to last from September 13 to September 21, according to a report by Larry Dogbey, publisher of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1162,7574,15369,20232,88,4741],"class_list":["post-1211651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-allegedly","tag-arrival","tag-deported","tag-jfk","tag-presidential","tag-staffer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211651","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=1211651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}