The recent chilling news that Europe’s aerospace multinational, Airbus, has conceded paying huge bribes to Ghana in order to secure contracts during Mills/Mahama administration between 2009 and 2015, has somehow reinforced Mr Martin Amidu’s previous allegations that the late Mills set up a Committee to investigate his then Vice President Mahama over the dubious aircraft deals. To some of us, ...
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Amidu is our witness: Didn’t Mills set up a Committee to investigate Mahama?
It is quite strange that the vast majority of the NDC Communicators are denying any knowledge of the late Mills setting up a Committee to investigate the then vice president, John Dramani Mahama over the dubious Brazilian aircrafts deal (see: martinamidu.com). The overarching question then is: if the ubiquitous frog comes out of water to announce the untimely demise of ...
Read More »Why investigate Airbus matter when Ghana did not lose any money – Stan Dogbe to Akufo-Addo
An aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, Mr Stan Xoese Dogbe thinks that there was no need to investigate the airbus matter when Ghana did not actually lose any money. In a Facebook post Monday morning [February 3, 2020], in reaction to President Akufo-Addo’s referral of the matter to the Special Prosecutor, Mr Martin Amidu to investigate the said ...
Read More »New voters register ready by November – EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) has stated that it is on course to produce a new credible biometric voters register and dispatch copies to all the constituencies by November 8. By its calender, which has been shown to some senior journalists and editors as part of its engagement and consultation with key stakeholders, the EC estimates that the registration process, the ...
Read More »Airbus Bribery Scandal: Is ‘Intermediary 5’ Samuel Mahama?
Former President John Dramani Mahama has dominated the news after Airbus, Europe’s largest aerospace giant admitted paying huge bribes to secure contracts in Ghana when the former was the vice president and later president. A London High Court found Airbus guilty, and imposed a fine of three billion pounds (£3bn) as penalties. Anti-corruption investigators, according to The Guardian, have described ...
Read More »Airbus Bribery Scandal: Special Prosecutor to probe ‘Government Officials’
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has tasked the Office of the Special Prosecutor to conduct an inquiry into the involvement of any public official, “past or present” who may have been engaged in the Airbus bribery scandal. A statement signed by Eugene Arhin, the Director of Communications at the Presidency said the Office of the Special Prosecutor is “to collaborate ...
Read More »Airbus scandal: Mahama’s presidential ambition in limbo – Franklin Cudjoe
IMANI President, Franklin Cudjoe has said that John Mahama’s presidential campaign towards the December 2020 elections, will definitely take a hit following the recent Airbus corruption scandal. Ghana, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Taiwan, have been cited as destinations where Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, Airbus, admitted that it paid huge bribes in order to secure contracts. In the case of ...
Read More »Airbus Bribery Scandal: How Ghana got corrupted
Airbus, Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, confessed to a High Court in London of paying huge bribes in order to secure contracts in Ghana, between 2011 and 2015. The planemaker has been fined three billion pounds (£3bn) as penalties. Anti-corruption investigators, according to The Guardian Report, have described the court’s decision as the largest ever corporate fine for bribery in the ...
Read More »Airbus Bribery Scandal: Why Mahama can’t exonerate himself
The bribery scandal involving Airbus, Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, has opened a whole conversation on the corruption subject involving the former president and current flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama. According to The Guardian of the UK, Airbus was found guilty by a High Court in London for paying huge bribes to secure contracts during ...
Read More »Airbus confesses paying bribes to Ghana during Mills-Mahama administrations
Airbus, Europe’s largest aerospace multinational, has admitted paying huge bribes in order to secure contracts in Ghana, under the erstwhile Mills-Mahama administration. Airbus was found guilty by a High Court in London and is to pay a fine of 3 billion pounds (£3bn) as penalties. Anti-corruption investigators according to The Guardian Report, has described the court’s decision as the largest ...
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