[ 2016-11-30 ]

Police must arrest Bugri Naabu for taking bribe: Anyidoho
Deputy General Secretary of the governing National
Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho has
charged the Ghana Police Service to arrest the
Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu for admitting to
accepting a bribe.

The NPP on Tuesday 29 November alleged that
President John Mahama and his brother, Ibrahim, in
October this year, attempted bribing Bugri Naabu,
with two SUVs, separate amounts of GHS3.3million
and GHS500,000 as well as other mouthwatering
goodies so that he (Bugri Naabu) would resign from
the NPP and launch an acerbic tribal campaign
against NPP flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo by
painting him as a “hater of northerners”.

Reacting to the allegation on 505 on Class91.3FM,
Mr Anyidoho told Emefa Apawu that: “It’s a
criminal offence to be bribed under the laws of
Ghana so the police should pick up Bugri Naabu for
taking bribe”.

He described the NPP’s allegation as a “cock
and bull story”, “wild allegation” and
“lies”. According to him, the NDC will never
bribe Bugri Naabu for any gains.

Mr Mustapha Hamid, spokesperson for Mr Akufo-Addo
had told journalists earlier at a press conference
that the bribe was intended to entice Mr Naabu to
fall out with the NPP and help the NDC prosecute
its tribal agenda against Mr Akufo-Addo.

“He [Bugri Naabu] was supposed to resign from
the NPP, damage Akufo-Addo as an anti-northern
person, a rabid hater of northerners, and, in
turn, they were going to give him: a brand new V6
Mitsubishi vehicle, a brand new V8 Land Cruiser
[and] GHS3.3m.

“Bugri Naabu is owed by government to the tune
of GHS247,000 from road contracts that he has done
which government has not been paying for several
years. They promised to pay that money instantly
and then on the spot, they brought him GHS500,000
cash in GHS50 notes. Ibrahim Mahama dropped it
right in front of him [Bugri Naabu].

“It’s terribly sad. This country is in serious
trouble, we need to rescue this country from
serious trouble. The presidency has been so
depraved, so muddied, so dirtied that I tell you
in all sincerity as a Ghanaian that I feel
terribly sad as a Ghanaian,” Mr Hamid said.

He continued: “And then they gave the money to
Bugri Naabu and he took the money and left, it was
a Friday, 28th of October 2016, so the very next
day was a Saturday and Bugri Naabu found the one
Prudential Bank that he knew would be opened at
that time; that Abossey Okai branch of Prudential
Bank and then he went and deposited the money in
his account. His account number is 0090985590013,
account name is Daniel Bugri Naabu. And out of
that money, immediately Ibrahim Mahama told Bugri
Naabu to take GHS50,000 out of it and give it to
Alhaji Awal – the go-between; the man who
facilitated the meeting and that they will replace
the GHS50,000 later. A few days later at Bugri
Naabu’s daughter’s funeral in Tamale, true to
word, President Mahama sent a high-powered
delegation to Bugri Naabu’s daughter’s
funeral, led by Deputy Chief of Staff Kenneth
Wujangi. There was Dr Mustapha Ahmed in that
delegation, there was Ibrahim Mahama himself in
that delegation and then the president went and
gave Bugri Naabu an additional GHS10,000. In other
words, a donation of GHS10,000 was made on behalf
of the president and Ibrahim Mahama himself gave
GHS20,000 as funeral donation.”

He said days later “… they delivered the brand
new Mitsubishi V6 – it is actually parked in
this yard now – when we finish, journalists can
go and have a look at it. Now these are the
original documents of the Mitsubishi V6. This is
Bugri Naabu’s picture that they have put on it.
2 November 2016 was when the change of ownership
was done but this vehicle was imported in August
of 2016 and it originally was imported and is
owned by a company called Malin Investment Company
Limited. So we ourselves did a check with the
Registrar General to find out who are the owners
of Malin Investment Company Limited and the two
directors of Malin Investment are one Hawa Hayifi
Ayi Mahama and Frank Nuhu Alormator (Frank Alor).
And Frank Alor everybody knows is the personal
assistant to President Mahama. … Hawa Mahama, I
leave you to go and find out [who she is] … but
I’m sure you can infer that she is a sister of
the President but you can find that out. But what
we are sure of [which] everybody knows is, Frank
Alor, who is a personal assistant to President
Mahama. I’m sure all of you journalists know
him. So they jointly own Malin Investment which is
the company that originally imported the vehicle
which they have given to Daniel Bugri Naabu to
bribe him to destroy Akufo-Addo and make sure that
northerners hate him and that he doesn’t get a
vote in the north. Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot
run a country like that. You recall that just a
few days ago they brought Harruna Attah who
they’ve given an ambassadorial position in
Namibia to lie through his teeth that Akufo-Addo
had told him that no northerner can ever lead our
party. Now this revelation should tell you that it
is just a carefully orchestrated scheme. When I
refuted it, I’m sure a lot of you were saying:
‘Um, is it really true that Akufo-Addo didn’t
say that?’ But now it is very clear that
there’s an ethnic, ethnocentric, tribal agenda
that is meant to incite hatred against a good man
who has been fighting all his life for the
Ghanaian project, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
Allah shall fight for Akufo-Addo.”

Source - Classfmonline

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