{"id":743182,"date":"2022-01-10T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/asepa-boss-apologises-over-presidential-jet-for-shopping-trip-allegations\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:20:05","slug":"asepa-boss-apologises-over-presidential-jet-for-shopping-trip-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/asepa-boss-apologises-over-presidential-jet-for-shopping-trip-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEPA boss apologises over \u2018Presidential jet for shopping trip\u2019 allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mensah-Thompson_1400x1050-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Mensah Thompson_1400x1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Executive Director of Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has rendered an unqualified apology to the <strong>Ghana Armed Forces\u00a0<\/strong>(GAF).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the apology, Mr Thompson says he has withdrawn the publication, pending an official response from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the same medium, I made the earlier publication, I withdraw the publication pending an official response from the GCAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI unreservedly apologise to the Ghana Armed Forces if their image was in any way affected by my publication. We shall put out for your consumption the response to our request from the GCAA records of the Falcon 900-EX,\u201d he said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The apology is in connection with his allegations that a <strong>Presidential aircraft of GAF was used by relatives of President Akufo-Addo for a shopping trip<\/strong> to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The trip, he claimed, was between the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>GAF has since denied the allegations, stating their checks reveal the said aircraft has not been to Europe for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>This to them makes the publication \u201cuntrue, frivolous and without any basis\u2026 and a figment of the author\u2019s imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the post below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mensah-thompson.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ghTt2AT_yks\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"After One Year of Ghana&#039;s First Hung Parliament- Badwam Mpensenpensemu on Adom TV (7-01-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghTt2AT_yks?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Director of Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Mensah Thompson, has rendered an unqualified apology to the Ghana Armed Forces\u00a0(GAF). Aside from the apology, Mr Thompson says he has withdrawn the publication, pending an official response from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA). \u201cIn the same medium, I made the earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743182","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=743182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}