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"Fake news": Mac Manu slams reports Jubilee House has 998 staff

President Nana Akufo-Addos former campaign chairman Peter Mac Manu has pushed back hard against media reports that say

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According to him, not everyone who works at the office of the president works at the Jubilee House.

He said: It is not true. When we say presidency, they work for the office of the presidency. It is not everybody who works at the office of the presidency who is at the [Jubilee] House. Some of them are even at various locations but their designation is that they work under the office of the President."

“If NPP came with 200-and-something and somebody writes on his Facebook wall that NPP has employed 935 people at the Jubilee House, isn’t that fake news? It is.”

The President on Friday submitted a list of 998 people who work at the office of the president to parliament in line with the Presidential Office Act.

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The 'elephant size' of the list has generated storm on social media and the media landscape, with government officials struggling to justify the numbers.

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