In its desperate bid to hang on to power, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) purportedly devised various means aimed at winning the 2016 general elections.
It has emerged that in the heat of the campaign towards the general elections, the then NDC government, led by President John Dramani Mahama, almost succeeded in printing a whopping GH¢1 billion into the system to finance the NDC campaign.
The deal, involving the printing of GH¢50 notes to the tune of GH¢1 billion, however, failed to go through at the eleventh hour because the official printer of Ghana’s currency in Europe – Crane – allegedly refused to get involved, citing criminality.
The surreptitious deal involved flooding the market with the extra cash, passing it through non-conventional means, for vote buying and other matters bordering on criminality.
The NDC operatives reportedly cooked the deal from the Flagstaff House in Accra and was said to have been done on the blind side of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), whose Governor at the time was Dr Abdul Nashiru Issahaku – a close associate of then President Mahama.
However, it is not clear whether the former Governor sanctioned the criminal idea, but according to sources, one of his deputies was neck-deep in the shady deal in collaboration with some senior appointees at the presidency at the time.
According to sources, National Security radar has picked the case for investigation.
The Flagstaff House elements at all material times were using the said deputy governor as the conduit for the alleged criminal deal and did not want it to go through the official banking processes of currency printing.
The huge amount was all supposed to be in GH¢50 denomination as insisted by the Flagstaff House kingpins, although the ‘connection man,’ a Nigerian whose name was given as Lukman Lawal, had advised that the printing should be done in smaller denominations like GH¢5 to avoid detection.
DAILY GUIDE has gathered that the said Lawal met officials of Crane – a Swedish firm believed to be in-charge of printing Ghana’s currency – several times in Geneva, Switzerland and London ahead of the supposed printing, but the key agent between Ghana and the printing firm refused, insisting it was a criminal action.
Later when the deputy governor was queried about the whole deal, he allegedly claimed that pressure was mounted on him from the Flagstaff House and mentioned a top Mahama aide, who is a former manager of a radio station, as one of the people behind the deal.
According to sources, the Nigerian was going to fly his private jet from Houston, Texas, United States, to meet the Crane officials and fly the money to Africa and would eventually use Ghana’s presidential jet to transfer it into the country from Nigeria – without the approval of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA).
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Source: Daily Guide
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Daily Lies want to coverup on the forced resignation of the 2nd Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana. SHAME!!!!!
COCKS AND BULL STORY. THIS N A ST-TY REPORTAGE SHOULD BE TOLD TO THE MARINES NOT ENLIGHTENED GHANAIANS. INSTEAD OF NPP AND THE GOOD FOR NOTHING DAILY GUIDE NEWS PAPER, CONCENTRATE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION, THEY RATER CHOSE ON DOING U SE- LESS AND UN PRODUCTIVE PROPAGANDA. FOR ALL YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT NPP AND NANA ADOO HAD PLANNED TO DO. THEY ARE JUST TESTING THE GROUNDS TO SEE THE REACTION OF GHANAIANS IF THEY HEAR SUCH STORIES. NPP SHOULD BE REMINDED THAT GHANAIANS ARE VERY MUCH AWAKE AND HAVE SEEN ALL THEIR TRICKY PRANKS.
Ebo Nana and Bawumiah are not going to give you Ghana's money for free, go and find work to do and they will pay you. You are a fo*l, that is what you are and repeat that to yourself. Ghanaians are not going to sweep under carpet the evil that ndc did to this nation. NPP were voted to power to deal with you people, you were thi*ves before NPP took over in 2001 and some of you were jailed and you are still thi*ves to be prosecuted and jailed and ndc will forever be thi*ves because they were born thi*ves. Ghanaians trust and believe the NPP who ndc are trying hard to stigmatize them like everybody is drunk in corruption like the ndc but it won't wash. Ndc rushed the NPP to court out of h*te and jealousy 15 times with no evidence so lost them all, ndc what again do you need from the NPP? NPP was born by honest, dedicated, compassion and patriotic people who nobody has evidence they ever stole from the state. Danquah died in prison because of patriotism to his country Busia's government which Dombo was part wasn't accused with corruption or any form of stealing but the military were dissatisfied with the policy that asked them to pay for their on utility bills, so ndc can spin around, turn and twist it won't wash because they are noted for ste*ling and mismanagement of the countries resources. There is no doubt in my mind that this story is true because where there is corruption and ste*ling there will you find ndc. The party ndc must be wiped off from the radar of Ghana politics. It is shameful that a country once revered in the world falls into the hands of kriminals to rule. Ghana must wake up and rise to resist kriminals in political suits to rule them again. We need critical thinkers for our nation not economic association. Ndc is not good for Ghana 'period'.
So this is the newspaper story that that arrogant lady, called Mamavi Owusu something at Joynews TV, who is full of herself, was trying to shoot down comments by her colleague during their newspaper review session on Thursday, 04 Jan. I was very much pissed off. Some individuals have been having problems with this particular voltarian lady, an NDC sympathizer through and through, hiding behind her husband’s name and doing the bidding of her party. Her time will soon be up. This is a national issue that would have had serious repercussions on the socio-economic systems of the country had it succeeded and she wanted it simply shelved, for her parochial reasons. So is this Mamavi lady telling us that if she ever heard that a certain lady nearly seduced her husband or vice versa she would not be bothered because the seduction did not take place? Hypocrite!
Almost succeeded. This phrase alone makes this publication a complete lie.
I thought by now we will be talking about what barwumia and nana addo has done which are making the lives of Ghanaians better, but the opposite is the case. We all agreed that NDC was bad government and voted them out, so I just can't understand the government keeps doing propaganda instead of working. As we speak cement which used to sell at 26gh is now 40. What has changed. Food prices keep going up. What has changed. Talk of fuel, rent etc. What changed has we enjoyed so far, except barwumia's wife using state money to wear different dresses everyday, when she used to wear mayiafi and some normal simple dress. Look at nana addo's stomach now and compare it with before he became president. They are enjoying themselves at our expense and want us to still discuss NDC, meanwhile you are now in government.
Waaaaaaaa, look at this nun sense. One year after a party lost election, you are now coming to say it wanted to print money to do what. The NPP and it's media apparatchiks think Ghanaians are ediots so they can always throw in something to divert attention from their incompetence. Because the Tv fees and dvla saga is embarrassing them they have cooked up this story as red herring. What a deceptive crop of evil minds. The NDC should not keep quiet on some of these things. They should keep hammering them with their deficiencies.
stop insulting and passing hasty judgment on little propaganda
Someone should tell Daily lies to bring better lies and fabrication. Those who will believe this are the toys they control.
Someone should tell Daily lies to bring better lies and fabrication. Those who will believe this are the toy they control.