General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has rubbished claims that his party was reckless in assigning names to the codes used in the Airbus ruling and the Serious Fraud Office reports that emanated from the United Kingdom.
“What prevents us from putting names out if we know the code-names in the Airbus scandal,” he quizzed, saying “we are not reckless”.
Mr Boadu who was speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosiisen show said the persons behind the names they assigned to ‘Government Official 1’ and ‘Intermediary 5’ could go to court if they feel defamed in order to clear their names.
He explained the task given the Special Prosecutor to mean an investigation into the Airbus scandal report [as a whole] and not to find who Gov’t Official 1 was because the NPP already knows who ‘Government Official 1’ was.
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UK court documents which have since been making rounds in Ghana have it that some top Ghanaian officials, between 2009 and 2015, allegedly received bribes from Airbus, one of the biggest aircraft manufacturers in the world, to grant the company business favour.
Although no names were mentioned, codes were used to describe the officials.
The NPP in a press conference on Monday claimed that evidence available to them pointed to the fact that former President Mahama was the supposed “Government Official 1” named in the court documents, claims some NDC officials have come out to deny.