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Mahama 'smuggled' money in Ford gift for 2012 campaign - Amidu

A former Attorney General Martin Amidu also condemned the investigation conducted by the Commission on Human rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) into the matter describing it as a farce.

The former Attorney General made this revelation in his latest epistle copied to the media.

He alleged that after the death of President Mills’, President Mahama assumed office ‘unprepared financially’ for the 2012 elections.

“However, the President’s friend and beneficiary of contracts, when the President had assumed office, was ready to provide financial support,” Amidu said.

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He further explained that the only option left was to transport the money “ingeniously through the Ford Expedition and a wrapper, wrapping the many dollars needed for the Mahama Campaign. No searches, no questions.”

Amidu said his allegation is based on a letter dated October 29, 2012, which was from the Ghana Embassy in Burkina Faso to the border authorities at Paga.

He also condemned the investigation conducted by the Commission on Human rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) into the matter. He described it as a farce.

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“CHRAJ has no jurisdiction but the President was too happy to have his own institution purport to clear him – a farce to make the public believe the President has the people’s interests at heart and that his institutions will protect the public purse. But all this while, it covered an unconstitutional scheme at election time.”

Some sections of Ghanaians expressed anger over reports that President Mahama was given a brand new Ford Expedition in 2012 by a Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe who won the bid to construct the $650,000 Ghana Embassy Wall in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou.

Many anti-corruption campaigners slammed the president for what they describe as his disregard for the guidelines on conflict of interest in accepting the vehicle gift.

However, Government in a statement issued by Communications Minister, Edward Omane Boamah said even though the car was received, it had nothing to do with the contract awarded.

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President John Mahama subsequently rubbished corruption allegations against him, saying such claims are baseless.

The Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho later dismissed a motion filed by the minority over President Mahama's Ford Gift Saga.

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