Dr. Gideon Boako, spokesperson of Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has given further clarity on a corruption allegation levelled against the Second Gentleman by a dismissed minister, Charles Adu Boahen, formerly the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry.
Boako, who was quoted in the investigative report by Anas Aremeyaw Anas denying that his boss took US$200,000 ‘appearance fees’ to meet investors as alleged by Adu Boahen; explained on Accra-based Citi FM that the embattled minister acted ‘unprofessionally.’
Boako stressed that if the allegations against Adu Boahen were true, he had engaged in “political grandstanding,” shown a lack of organizational maturity and acted without discretion.
“Charles is close to us, we are in the same party, but I must say that he is not close to the Vice President as I am. Charles is not somebody who you would say on day-to-day works with the Vice President or is his friend,” Boako stated whiles reiterating the flat denial that what he said of the veep was untrue.
He added, “we haven’t checked the video, and we don’t know exactly what he said, so I don’t want to put the blame squarely on him now, but if what we have seen is anything to go by then I must say that he acted out of indiscretion, political grandstanding, he didn’t display much of organisational maturity in whatever he said because I don’t see why he had to say what he said and bring in the Vice President.”
