The ‘Daily Guide’ newspaper, owned by the Acting National Chairman of the NPP, Freddy Blay, has once again been caught in another monumental lie against President John Mahama.
Yesterday, under the screaming front page headline “ Mahama shares Cash for Votes”, the paper claimed that the President went distributing cash at Sabon Zongo at Abossey Okai during his Greater Accra Regional campaign tour last week. The story, written by Charles Takyi-Boadu read in part;
“President John Mahama, in his inordinate ambition for re-election in the December general election, has been spotted sharing money on his campaign trail. The most recent is a video footage on social media in which the President is seen standing in his open-top V8 Toyota Landcruiser and doling out cash to people in the street during a campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region. The video, which has since gone viral and captured on several websites was obviously shot by an amateur photographer who was reportedly observing proceedings from the balcony of a story building”
The Daily Guide’s story goes on to say that “In that video, the Presidential convoy is seen moving at a snail pace on the streets of Sabon Zongo at Abossey Okai with President Mahama spotting a white cap on top of a black coloured T-shirt and responding to cheers from admirers. As the crowd cheered him on, he beckoned someone from the crowd to come and ordered his driver to stop. He is then seen reaching out for money from the vehicle and giving it out to the person who meandered his way through the crowd amidst tight security to take the money. As the vehicle began to move, the President beckoned a few others to come and he reached out for more cash from the car for them. He repeated the gesture a number of times as the crowd surged forward to grab his hand obviously for some cash”
However, enquiries made by this paper indicate that the Daily Guide’s report is lie, a concocted story from the fertile imagination of the writer, Charles Takyi-Boadu and the editor of the paper, Fortune Alimi.
When this paper contacted President Mahama yesterday via phone and put the allegation before him, he simply laughed it off, explaining what happened on that occasion.
According to him, when they entered Sabon Zongo, the passage was narrow and the crowd following him was very heavy. From the top of his vehicle, he saw a little girl with a tray of boiled egg in the crowd being pushed by the cheering crowd amidst the jostling. The tray fell from the girl’s head and the crowd trampled on the fallen eggs. The girl then burst into tears. Touched by what only he could see because of where he was standing, he ordered the man who commands his convoy (who was in his vehicle) to stop the convoy. The convoy thus stopped.
President Mahama said he then took GH¢50 from his ADC, pointed to the crying girl in the crowd and then reaching down from the top of the vehicle, gave it to a woman standing by her thinking she was with the girl. However, he was surprised to see the girl still crying so he asked her if the woman was the mother. When the girl shook her head and he noticed the woman had moved away, he took another GH¢50 from his ADC and gave it to the girl. This drew wild cheers from the teeming crowd.
President Mahama recalled that it was even the crowd that helped the girl forward towards his vehicle to enable her take the money because they knew he was compensating her for what she had lost. It explains why the people around were not scrambling for the money.
The crowd that thronged the Abossey Okai area when the President stormed there has dazed the NPP especially as it is believed the place is their stronghold. It is therefore understandable that the party’s activists, including the Acting National Chairman and his boys, would try to put a spin on what happened there in a desperate bid to shore up their flagbearer’s tottering campaign. NPP activists have been sharing the video on social media with glee, leaning on their own misunderstanding and desperately wanting others to believe their concocted story.
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Source: Daily Post
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Nana Addo never visited the gentleman who died during the prekos demonstrations. Events that made NANA ADDO a political figure in the NPP. Who is a naturally caring person comparing Prez Mahama's action against the inaction of Nana Addo?
If campaigning in a place like Abossey Okai Zongo you could pick out a little girl carrying eggs and eggs falling and you heard her crying all in the supposed crowd, then Mr Mahama, you don't need TB Joshua to tell you how unpopular you have become. My little girl will say "LIAR".
EH! MAHAMA,MAHAMA. FROM MAHAMA TO THE LOWEST NDC SUPPORTER HAVE NO FEAR OF GOD.THEY ARE ALL FANTASTIC LIARS.HOW CAN MAHAMA CONCOCT A STORY LIKE THIS WHILES ALL SAW THAT HE WAS SHARING MONEY.EH! MAHAMA.APLUS WAS RIGHT.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
Mahama de lie lie to much! Sadly, he is a Christian!
Lies lies lies lies lies aba Mr. President grow up and stop telling lies
Hi Guys, with this elections there are many things going on. Npp and Ndc are both telling lies against each other. Please why dont you give us the video so we decide on who is telling the truth. I believe what the president is saying.
He even denied the Burkina Ford Expedition bribe though he was caught red handed, with the lame explanation that he doesn't like American cars. He doesn't learned, we thought he would have taken a lesson from the Burkina Ford expedition exposure. But because of desperation to stay in power he continue with this evil act. Ghanaian should him he will surely pay for it some days to come
The president's explanation does not add up. The president say from where he was standing he was the only one who could see the girls ordeal. he then calls the girls to come forward for the money, but instead he gave the money to a certain woman. If he called the girl to come all the way from the crowd just to be compensated for her ordeal why did he give the money to a supposed lady without asking if the lady was the mother of the girl?. He then says that it was even the crowd that helped the girl forward towards his vehicle to enable her take the money because they knew he was compensating her for what she had lost. Was is not the same president who said from where he was standing, only he could see the girl's ordeal? at what point did the crowd get to know that he was compensating the girl because of what she had lost. Mr. President, your are a big liaaar, accept. Why cant you stop lying for just a second. Your time is up.
what of the other handful of individuals he called to come for some 'Mahama leaflets'. did he push their tomatoes down? get a life and tell us something reasonable and stop these use.less lies