The anti-corruption campaigner mentioned he rejected the provide on the heels of his unflinching loyalty to the NPP and then opposition leader and now president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Personal computer Appiah Ofori shot to fame in the political arena in Ghana just after he frequently levelling corruption allegation in opposition to the John Agyekum Kuffuor administration soon after the NPP dropped the 2008 elections.
In 2009, he exposed in his testimony right before the inter-ministerial committee tasked to overview the Ghana Telecom sale, that all the NPP MPs who voted for the sale were each and every paid $5,000.
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He instructed Television set3’s Johnnie Hughes in an distinctive job interview on Monday, September 28, 2020, that ”John Mahama himself called me and told me he wished me to go and play a role in his administration and I told him that if he himself engages in corruption I would not hesitate to expose him”.
“He advised me that was why he preferred me to come and be a examine on him and his ministers but I didn’t take the place due to the fact if I should be part of NDC administration, it will indicate that I experienced deserted NPP and I experienced deserted Akufo-Addo so I informed him I will not choose the placement but any corrupt tactics that will take area in his administration which will appear to my see, I will attract his focus to it.”
Requested whether he regrets not having up that place, he said: “As a nation, as a region for the much better of Ghana, I feel if I had positioned Ghana’s interest over occasion and acquired into that situation, I feel I would have been ready to get all those people engaged in corruption prosecuted. So for that, I have regretted.”
He further more disclosed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has neglected him right after profitable the 2016 elections to become president.
“I championed Akufo-Addo and set him up from 2007 up to the time he became president 2017. I am not joyful about my abandonment. I am not joyful about the way Akufo-Addo does not know me once again.
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“Either he has blocked my line or altered his line. If I simply call him it does not go [through]. I individually petitioned Akufo-Addo that I desired to be sent to the board of the [Office of] Particular Prosecutor so that I will develop into the investigator but no response from him.
“I wrote the letter as soon as the Specific Prosecutor was appointed. I just wanted to go there to look into all these Auditor General’s stories. Some of the Auditor General’s stories are not complete sufficient.”
