{"id":1230261,"date":"2022-10-20T22:46:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/western-regional-minister-on-why-he-responded-to-missing-gh%c2%a217m-galamsey-money-post\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:46:59","slug":"western-regional-minister-on-why-he-responded-to-missing-gh%c2%a217m-galamsey-money-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/20\/western-regional-minister-on-why-he-responded-to-missing-gh%c2%a217m-galamsey-money-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Regional Minister on why he responded to &#8216;missing GH\u00a217m galamsey money post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aviation_minister_deputy.png\" alt=\"Western Regional Minister why he responded to 'missing GH\u00a217m galamsey money post\" class=\" bd-imagestyles-16\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nWestern Regional Minister why he responded to &#8216;missing GH\u00a217m galamsey money post <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah has explained why he responded to\u00a0a social\u00a0post that alleged that GH\u00a217 million being proceeds from illegal mining and belonging to a regional minister had been stolen.<\/h2>\n<p>The post on social media had said\u00a0a certain regional minister had fainted after\u00a0his driver stole his GH\u00a217 million being proceeds from illegal mining (galamsey) and bolted into Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The post did not mention the said minister&#8217;s name but Mr Darko-Mensah in a reaction said the innuendo had been linked to him.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:\u00a0Minister reacts to GH\u00a217m galamsey cash innuendo<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Graphic Online&#8217;s\u00a0Dotsey Koblah Aklorbortu in Takoradi, he said he responded because he had issues with some parts of the post.<\/p>\n<p>He described the post as unfortunate and said his driver has not travelled or bolted with any money \u2013 \u201cthe said minister, if the post is even true or not, is certainly not from the Western Region, not Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah, I don\u2019t know anything about the money and not my driver too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked why he responded, he said there are 16 regions in Ghana and that he responded to the post after he saw an infograph on social media, with his photograph and a caption on it as the said minister whose money had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not have commented but linking it to me was unfortunate, let me tell you here and now that I do not have GH\u00a217million, my driver has not run away with any money, he is still at post and I have never been hospitalised and I do not know anything about the said galamsey money,\u201d he told Graphic Online.<\/p>\n<p>He said fortunately for him and unfortunately for the detractors, technology has improved and people can no longer sit behind computers, create fake news to tarnish the image of the others and go free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driver <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On his part, when Graphic Online contacted the driver of the Regional Minister, Francis Kwame Akoto expressed shock at the news that he has bolted with GH\u00a217million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never seen that kind of money before and not with my minister too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akoto said he has never been to Ivory Coast and that the farthest he had ever gone to was when he drove the Minister to a nearby border town for an official ceremony and during the tree planting exercise at Elubo in the Jomoro Municipality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"5a05b3b2ea69871fabe7f1ac-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"5a05b3b2ea69871fabe7f1ac-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); 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