Dr. Nduom wants battered image in Wikileaks cleared

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Dr. Nduom wants battered image in Wikileaks cleared

The 2008 flagbearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom is challenging the party’s General Secretary

Ivor Greenstreet to come out publicly to deny or confirm damaging comments on Dr Nduom attributed to Mr. Greenstreet in the wikileaks diplomatic cables.

Dr. Nduom who addressed a press conference on Thursday said he is concerned about the comments in the leaked U.S. cables because they have the potential to affect his local and international credibility.

“I want Mr Greenstreet to clear the air as soon as possible, so that he and I can have a productive relationship, a good relationship that would inure to the benefit of the Convention People’s Party.”

Mr Greenstreet is reported in the leaked US diplomatic cables to have said that Dr. Nduom misrepresented and faked himself as a citizen American.

He also alleged that Dr Nduom was dishonest and paid delegates to win the party’s flagbearship.

The CPP’s General Secretary is alleged to have also said among others that during the 2008 electioneering campaign, Dr Nduom sidelined the party’s structures, which he attributed to its abysmal performance in that elections.

Though Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom has denied the allegations, he said he has sent an e-mail to Mr Greensteet to come out on it for the sake of his (Nduom’s) “personal integrity” so that they can put the matter behind them.

“If he says I didn’t say it, if he says they misinterpreted his words, or he says he didn’t mean it, I will accept. I want people who have read those words to know and understand that I am not the person that is being described and has been described in those Wikileaks reports.”

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Delegates Arrive In Accra For CPP Congress

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Delegates Arrive In Accra For CPP Congress

Delegates to the Extra Ordinary National Congress of the CPP have started arriving at the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre for election of the party's national executive.

As at 1:00am, delegates from four regions, Northern, Upper West, Upper East and Eastern had arrived at the Congress grounds.

They were welcomed by some party officials.

Currently accreditation of delegates is ongoing and expected to end by 10:00pm.

The Former Director of the National Youth Council, Dr Sekou Nkrumah has been analyzing the NDC-CPP fraternity in line with the re-organization of the CPP.

He said the CPP appears to have been hijacked by the NDC and that has affected the progress of the party.

Speaking to Radio Ghana, Dr Nkrumah said he joined the NDC because nothing seems to be happening in the CPP.

Meanwhile, some sections of the Public have wished the CPP well and have asked the party to elect a leader who can win election for the party.

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Bogus informants paid to smear Nana Addo

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Bogus informants paid to smear Nana Addo

Intelligence reports available to the New Statesman indicates that the ruling National Democratic Congress is in the process of facilitating the arrival into the country of a woman from the United Kingdom to give “evidence” to in support of the party' false allegations that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, is a cocaine user.

This is part of a concerted plot by the NDC to fulfil its promise of engaging primarily in the politics of assessing the characters of presidential candidates as opposed to focusing on issues that affect Ghanaians in the run-up to the 2012 elections.

With the hierarchy of the NDC fully admitting that their “Better Ghana Agenda” cannot win them the 2012 general elections, a decision has been made to engage in a brutal character assassination of the NPP flagbearer. This, members of the NDC believe, is the only way to win the 2012 election.

{sidebar id=10 align=right}According to sources close to the paper, the woman, whose name is yet to be revealed, has been paid a whopping £200,000 to come into the country to make claims that she had been abusing a wide range of drugs with the NPP flagbearer during his years spent living in the UK.

A tall list of coached witnesses, who are known junkies, from the UK is also to be flown into the country to give “credence” to the NDC “star witness’s” testimony.

Computer graphics experts have also been employed by the NDC to generate “fake pictures” of Nana Akufo-Addo engulfed in a thick cloud of smoke and sniffing cocaine to buttress the claims of this woman.

Since 1995, the NDC has been involved in waging a war of alleged drug use by the NPP flagbearer even though the party has still not been able to raise any shred of evidence against him.

Perhaps Fifi Kwetey gives the reason why the NDC is hell-bent on destroying Nana Addo.  NDC insiders, according to Fifi Kwetey, view the “former Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo as the most formidable potential opponent in the general election ....... well-funded, popular, charismatic, and has great appeal to younger voters.”

Recent information released by international whistle-blowing organisation, Wikileaks, has been pounced on by NDC propagandists as proof of their allegations against Nana Addo.

However, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, Editor-in-Chief of The Insight newspaper and Dr Kwesi Aning, Head of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, who were alleged to have stated their knowledge of drug use by Nana Addo, have stated their non-remembrance of the issue and denial of their statements respectively as contained in the leaked US embassy cables.

As such to find other ways to impugn the credibility of the NPP flagbearer, the NDC has thus embarked on this path of flying down supposed witnesses.

This is not the first time the NDC has planned to use false witnesses in their attempt to destroy Nana Akufo-Addo, something they have tried since 1995.

Earlier this year, counsel for Nana Addo, just as they did in 2008, sought to put an end to the false allegations of Nana Addo’s arrest for drug trafficking at the John F Kennedy Airport in the United States peddled by the NDC.

The Executive Director of the Danquah Institute revealed in November 2010 that the NPP for good reasons did not go to court to cure the NDC’s allegations of drug use by Nana Addo.

According to him, the party had gathered intelligence suggesting that elements within the NDC had lined up a tall list of coached witnesses who would falsely testify to have been sniffing cocaine with Nana Addo.

“The intelligence that came was that they had lined up people who were willing to come to court to say that they even smoked cocaine with him,” he revealed.

He said based on this intelligence report and the need to concentrate on bread and butter issues ahead of the 2008 elections the campaign team decided to trust the conscience of Ghanaians not to believe this cooked-up cocaine story by the NDC.

“A lot of things have been said about people. But you think that Ghanaians will not believe that such a man who has devoted 35 years of his life giving exemplary leadership to this country would be reduced to a common cocaine addict,” he said.

He was speaking on Joy FM's Newsfile on the denial of cocaine addiction by Nana Akufo-Addo. The NPP flagbearer described allegations that he sniffs cocaine as sheer nonsense and challenged the accusers to adduce evidence or shut up.


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Drama Over Minister’s Juju

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Drama Over Minister’s Juju

DAILY GUIDE’s political reporter, Halifax Ansah-Addo, became the latest target of a smear campaign yesterday, Monday,

September 5, when he went to the office of a deputy Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, Dr Hannah Louisa Bissiw, to follow up on a story in which she was alleged to have consulted a spiritualist to use ‘juju’ to achieve her dream of heading the ministry.

In less than 30 minutes after leaving Hannah Bissiw’s office, a number of broadcast journalists including Kojo Preko Dankwa of Asempa FM and Adom FM, as well as Fiifi Boafo of Oman FM called to ask why the reporter had taken a bribe of GH¢1,000 from Hannah Bissiw so as to kill a story.

According to Fiifi Boafo and Kojo Preko, they had received breaking news from Hannah Bissiw’s office that Halifax had just left the place, threatening to publish the said juju story if he was not given an amount of GH¢3,000 to “kill the story”.

The two broadcast journalists said they had the information from Hannah Bissiw’s office and the informant alleged that the deputy Minister’s secretary, a lady called Joyce, bargained the bribe money down to GH¢2,000, of which Halifax was given a first part payment of GH¢1,000. They said the entire discussion was secretly recorded and the arrangement was for Halifax to have gone for the remaining money the next day if the story did not appear in the paper.

Interestingly, Halifax really went to Hannah Bissiw’s office yesterday morning but did not meet her and spoke with the secretary.

The episode was similar to what happened to Ebo Bruce-Quansah, another DAILY GUIDE reporter, who was recently reported by the Ghana PALAVER newspaper, until recently edited by Ebo’s father, Jojo Bruce-Quansah, to have defrauded a pastor and a radio station at Bolgatanga in the Upper East region to the tune of GH¢1,500.

Both the pastor and the radio station have since issued statements to deny the Ghana Palaver publication and exonerated Ebo Bruce-Quansah.

Encounter At Hannah Bissiw’s Office

There were two female secretaries at Hannah Bissau’s reception. One of them gave her name as Joyce and explained that the deputy Minister was out of town but would return the next morning.

The journalist then requested to leave a written note for the minister after which he left.

About five or so minutes later, Joyce called Halifax on phone; she obviously had the phone number from the note he had left and asked him to return to the Minister’s office for a discussion on the story he was following.

When the journalist returned to Hannah Bissiw’s office, Joyce started begging him to drop the story because the deputy Minister was a staunch Christian who would not meddle in juju.

The journalist explained that dropping the story was beyond his reach because he had been sent by his editor.

He insisted that Joyce should give the note to the deputy Minister and assure her that her version would be carried so as to have a balanced story.

There was absolutely no talk about money between the journalist and Joyce and at no point was any call made to Hannah Bissiw while the journalist was in her office.

It was when Halifax left Hannah’s office that he had the phone calls from Fiifi and Kojo asking whether it was true he had gone for some money from the deputy Minister so as to drop a story.

Silent Denial By Hannah Bissiw’s Secretary

When Halifax got to his office, he was informed that someone had already called to make a similar allegation of bribery against him.

At that point, a phone call was placed to Hannah Bissiw’s office to find out from Joyce where the bribe allegation was coming from.

She denied being responsible for it and asked the journalist to relax and leave it for Jesus Christ to deal with.

Joyce blatantly denied that she was the one spreading the false report and promised to discuss the development with the deputy Minister the next day.

Though DAILY GUIDE had followed the ‘juju story’  for some time, it had been difficult to get the deputy Minister’s version as she neither picked her phone when the paper tried reaching her on countless occasions nor even bothered to reply text messages sent to her phone requesting to book an interview with her.

Source: Daily Guide/Ghana

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