Ghana’s president to sue opposition party

  1. Posted on Friday 17 October 2008 - 13:00
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    Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    President John Kufuor of Ghana has issued a 14-day ultimatum to leaders of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), and persons said to be circulating information that he has been involved in a botched multi-million dollar oil deal to retract and apologise or prepare to meet him in court.
    Ghana president and AU chairman John Kufuor
    The Presidential Spokesperson, Andrew Awuni, described the allegation as 'wicked liars' and a figment of the imagination of his accusers, but he wants them to retract and apologize to him or meet him in court to prove their case.

    The Weekly Standard newspaper, edited by Victor Smith, a former special aide to ex-President Rawlings, has been serializing what it describes as excerpts of the botched business oil deal with an unnamed Kuwaiti company. He claimed that it has landed the President a whopping cost of $5.5 billion dollars in arbitration fees, $4 billion of which he has been able to offset.

    Victor Smith said he was speaking from impeccable sources and urged Ghanaians to demand of the President where and how he got the money to clear that bill. He was speaking Joy fm a local radio station in Accra.

    In reaction, Victor Smith said it will be a wishful thinking on the part of Awuni and President Kufuor to expect any retraction and apology, and urged them to proceed to court, because he was ready for them.

    He maintained that the President knew within his heart that he had been involved in the said deal and for which the 'partners' are trying to extract the remainder of $1.5 billion.

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  1. Posted on Saturday 18 October 2008 13:23
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    The President should go ahead and sue whoever is responsible for that information, if he is really convinced of innocence. Irresponsible journalism is more of a threat to our infant democracy than disgruntled trigger-happy army officers and their cohorts.

    Rev. Fr. A. Arko-Cobbah

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