Former president John Dramani Mahama has described claims by Abronye DC, the regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party for the Bono Region, that he received an amount of GHC14 million as ex gratia as absolute lie.
According to Mr. Mahama, even though government is supposed to pay for his bills, he has for the last 3 elections, paid his own bills including water, electricity,rent , medical bills as well as plane tickets.
He made the disclosure in an interview with Alfred Ocancey of Tv3
The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe was reported to have said that the former president received 14 million ex gratia in his ADB account in a press release dated September 6, 2022, a claim former President Mahama has denied.
‘ That’s an absolute lie. He Abronye DC says in 2013 14 million [cedis] was paid into my ADB [Agricultural Development Bank] account. I have my 2013 bank statement I will let you look through it and see if there is any 14 million payment,” Mahama said.
He also added that the only payment that was made to him was a salary areas of 230,ooo cedis in 2013.
‘ The only payment that was made to me by government, Accountant General, was my salary arrears of 230,000 cedis in 2013. I will show it to you first, and later if you want we can call a group of you journalists. Of course, I don’t want to publish my bank statement but I can put it before you and you can look through all the payments and see if there is a 14 million cedis payment. I didn’t receive any such payment”. He told Alfred Ocansey
He concluded by saying that he only received his pension like former president Kuffour and late former president Rawlings and nothing else aside that.
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