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Dr Gideon Boako has described as "mischievous" reports trying to link Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to James Keck Osei, an Administrator.

Tuesday's edition of the Daily Guide newspaper had as its major headline: 'OSP Drags Bawumia's Administrator, 3 others To Court'.

According to the news article, "Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, has dragged James Keck Osei, the Administrator at the Office of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and three others to court for failing to comply with a notice to declare their properties and income".

However, Dr Gideon Boako, Spokesperson for the Vice President told Kwami Sefa Kayi in an interview on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', that such reports are inaccurate; saying, "the fact that the person is in the Vice President's office doesn't mean he works for him directly; he works for government and so it would've been better to say government's Administrator instead of saying Bawumia's Administrator. It's quite mischievous but it's politics so..."

"He's not a political appointee and he's been in his current position for a long time even before the Akufo-Addo administration came to office. Such people don't take instruction from political heads, they use the Civil Service structure . . . the Vice President can't even punish him when he does anything wrong . . "




Background

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has arrested and charged four public servants for failing to declare their sources of income.

In a series of tweets shared on Friday, February 10, 2023, the OSP said that the public servants charged included James Keck Osei, an administrator at the Office of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia; Issah Seidu, a staff at the National Insurance Commission; John Abban and Peter Archibold, who are both senior Officers with the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority.

“Four persons, three public servants and one civil servant have been arrested and charged by OSP for failing to comply and declare sources of income in contravention of regulation 20 of LI2374.

“Mr. Siedu works with National Insurance Commission, James works with Office of the Vice President as an administrator and John and Peter are senior Officers with the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority,” parts of the tweets read.

The OSP indicated that public servants are being prosecuted as part of its lifestyle audit initiative.

It added that the accused persons will be put before the Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra, on Monday, February 13, 2023.