Even before the Office of the Special Prosecutor, tasked by President Akufo-Addo to unravel the complicity of any past or present public official in the infamous Airbus scandal, Former Head of Communications at the Presidency during ex-President Mahama’s tenure, Stan Xoese Dogbe believes considering "Ghana did not lose any money" there is need for government to investigate the matter.
The aide to the former President, in a Facebook post, wants the Akufo-Addo government to rather probe his corruption-laden "family and cronies" appointees; their sordid enterprises which are "still fresh in the minds of Ghanaians".
"Ha ha ha!! Finally, the SP [Special Prosecutor] will have some work to do."
"But please, Mr. Akufo-Addo, given that Gov’t of Ghana did not lose any money in this Airbus matter, and yet you are willing to attempt some so-called investigation, just asking, why wont you rather investigate the nepotism-induced $24m tax waiver you gave to your in-law which will be at a cost to the tax payer?"
"The criminal PDS scandal involving your family and cronies is also still fresh in our minds ooo!" Stan Dogbe's post read.
Prez Charges Martin Amidu
Following news of the Crown Court at Southwark in the United Kingdom's judgement on 31st January, 2020, between the Director of the Serious Fraud Office and Airbus SE, in which the European multinational aerospace corporation was fined $3.9 billion for the payment of bribes to secure deals in five countries, including Ghana, the Office of the President charged the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, to with immediate effect delve into the bottom of the Airbus bribery scandal and investigate the complicity of any public official, "past or present" who may have been involved in the saga.
"....President Akufo-Addo has taken notice of the judgement and its implications, and has referred it to the Office of Special Prosecutor to collaborate with its UK counterparts to conduct a prompt inquiry to determine the complicity or otherwise of any Ghanaian government official, past or present, involved in the said scandal, and to take the necessary legal action against any such official, as required by Ghanaian law," a statement signed by Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin read.
“Grave, Pervasive and Pernicious”
A London High Court found Airbus guilty, and imposed a fine of three billion pounds (£3bn) as penalties.
Airbus was charged with five counts of failing to prevent bribery, having used a network of secret agents to pay large-scale backhanders to officials in foreign countries to land high-value contracts.
Anti-corruption investigators, according to The Guardian, have described the court's decision as the largest ever corporate fine for bribery in the world. A judge declared the corruption was “grave, pervasive and pernicious.”
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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This confirms what Brigadier General (Rtd) Nunoo-Mensah said few days ago that....... "Mahama surrounded himself with BRAINLEEESS KIDS". I dare say 40% of Mahama woes are from this brainleeeess Stan Dodge, Omane Boamah and others who unfortunately are not at the frontline now but cooling off elsewhere and enjoying their stolen money. Martin Amidu will bet to the bottom of all that rot
STAN DOGBE HAS CONFIRMED THE NEFARIOUS THIEFERY OF THE NDC. HEAR HIM: GHANA DID NOT LOOSE ANYTHING AND SOME PEOPLE COLLECTED MONEY IN THE NAME OF GHANA. SHAME
Listening or reading pieces from this ***barred word*** and stu9!d Mahama apparatchiks is very disheartening? When it came out that Prez. Mills established a 3 member committee to investigate your boss Mahama who was then Vice President you came out to deny it. Now the chips have started fallen and whether Ghana lost money or not only time will tell. It very evident that every single contract or transaction that had Mahama's hand or input it is stained by corruption. What kind of a person is this? God have mercy! Long Live Mother Ghana! Long Live the Great Adaklu Kingdom! Long Live the Great Elephant!
They want to come and Govern Ghana again..If I were him I will keep quite...Ghana wake up ooo.. Their mind is to come and chop money for the next four years in the unlikely event that they win power
SOMETIME I WONDER THE KIND OF COUNTRY WE LEAVE IN; SOME PEOPLE WE HITHERTO RESPECTED SO MUCH..... GHANA DID NOT LOSE ANY MONEY SO WHAT. YOU'VE RATHER GIVEN HIM OUT. KEET QUIET STAN AND LET THE EXPECTS DO THE PR. N.O.N.SCENCE.
that is why you were supplied with an old painted plane which recently went off the runway. part of the money was given to mahama and his bro
Stan Dogbe, please refund your share and stop talking. Madam Brew Appiah is saying none of the money came into NDC accounts so the party is not involved but rather you and your master Mahama took the money so please bring your's now.
Stan Dogbe, since the giver has been punished it is therefore imperative to prosecute and punish all recipients. So wait when you come to power in the next 30 years, you can prosecute Nana Addo if think he has done something wrong against the state. Tax waivers did not start in Nana Addo's time.
Stan Dogbe is daft with no wisdom and seems out of mind. He also benefited from the bribe. Ghana did not loose money and is this your argument .Did you think properly. It seems you have confirmed they took the bribe.
Those of us who did ACCA or CIMA would know that the Bribery Act of UK which came into being in 2010 even makes it an offense for UK businesses to give Christmas hampers to their trading partners. But before 2010, many UK businesses decided whether to pay bribe or not in order to get the contract. Bribe for contract was unethical but lawful at that time. However after 2010 that changed. No wonder it says from 2009 to 2015. So likely bribe payment started in 2009 but Airbus was not smart to stop the practice after 2010 when the Bribery Act came into being.