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Bribery question to Mahama "irrelevant" - Akomea
According to him, the answer by the president to the question of whether he has ever taken bribe or not was not going to be anything different.
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"I find the question to the president irrelevant," Nana Akomea said on Accra-based TV3.
The president recently told the BBC in an interview on the sidelines of the Anti-Corruption summit in UK that, “Any human being in the world would have encountered corruption one way or the other, either being offered a bribe or a bribe being demanded from you. What you need to do is to put yourself in a position to (resist it).”
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When he was asked directly by the interviewer if he has taken bribe, Mahama responded saying “no, I haven’t taken bribe”.
His answer has sparked controversy among a section of Ghanaians who believe that the president is corrupt.
Nana Akomea, further indicated that his party has documents available to them which indicates that the President had played a role in the award of contracts to individuals and institutions.
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