[ 2017-01-25 ]

There were allegations of a bribery case involving President Mahama and Bugri Naabu late last year

Naabu to give Mahama car bribe to charity
Northern Regional chairman of the governing New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu has
hinted at giving a vehicle given to him by former
president John Mahama allegedly as bribe, to
charity.

"… I think we are going to give it to charity.
We are not going to use that car," he told Joy
FM’s Elton Brobbey on Tuesday, January 24.

Mr Naabu said late last year that he did not need
the controversial GHS500,000 and cars doled out to
him by Mr Mahama.

“What is GHS 500,000? What is a car? Me, when I
started buying cars, expensive cars, John Mahama
was a student. He was a student at Ghana
College,” Mr Naabu had said when he received
some regional and constituency executives of the
All People’s Congress at his residence in Tamale
in December 2016.

In December last year, at a press conference by
then NPP flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo’s
spokesperson, Mustapha Hamid, the party alleged
that Mr Mahama and his brother, Ibrahim, in
October of the same year, attempted buying Mr
Naabu so he would resign from the NPP and launch
an acerbic tribal campaign against Mr Akufo-Addo
by painting him as a “hater of northerners”.

“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 GHS 500,000
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 GHS 10,000. In other
words, a donation of GHS 10,000 was made on behalf
of the president and Ibrahim Mahama himself gave
GHS 20,000 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.”

Following the allegation, General Secretary of the
governing National Democratic Congress (NDC),
Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said only fools will
believe that Mr Mahama and his brother attempted
bribing Mr Naabu.

Source - classfmonline.com

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