Kwame Baffoe (L) and John Dramani Mahama (R)
The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, has made a sharp U-turn regarding his corruption allegation against President John Dramani Mahama.
Abronye, as he is widely known, earlier accused President Mahama of withholding and hoarding certain huge amounts of monies intended for dismissed appointees at the Jubilee House.
“The Akufo-Addo government budgeted GH¢550 million for these individuals to be employed. This money comes from taxpayers, yet another government cancels the appointments and allegedly transfers the funds to the Jubilee House. So, what are you doing with the GH¢550 million that was put in bullion vans and sent to the Jubilee House?
“You have revoked people’s appointments, taken their GH¢550 million, and put it in a bullion van,” he alleged on Accra-based Movement TV in February 2025.
However, clarifying his statement, Abronye explained that his claims about the money being transported in a bullion van to the presidency were merely semantics and that his statement had been misrepresented.
Speaking again on Movement TV on the same matter on February 28, 2025, after an invitation to the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) to substantiate his corruption allegation against the president, Abronye clarified that his reference to the bullion van did not imply that the money was physically at the president’s residence or being spent by him.
However, he added that his intention was to seek answers regarding the funds allocated for public sector workers whose employment appointments had been terminated.
He further explained that the said amount had been budgeted by the former Akufo-Addo government and captured in the 2024 budget to address such situations.
“… In the 2024 budget, we allocated GH¢58 billion for all Ghanaian workers, including those employed during the 2024 fiscal year. I posed a question seeking to understand the whereabouts of the funds if the workers’ appointments had been terminated. I wanted to get clarity by asking this question. That was when I made the statement that the money was being transported to the Jubilee House in a bullion van. The reference to the money being in a bullion van was simply a semantic expression I used. It does not mean that the money is physically at the president’s residence or that he is personally spending it,” Abronye explained in the interview.
The outspoken NPP executive also offered an apology to the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) for publicly disclosing the invitation letter requesting his presence to assist in the allegations he made against President John Dramani Mahama.
According to him, the letter he received from the NIB was meant to be confidential, however, he caused a mishap when he publicly published it
“One of the things they didn’t like, which I agree with, was my public disclosure of the invitation letter to the media. It was unethical for me to have done that. The letter clearly stated that the meeting was confidential, but when I was reading it, I failed to notice that detail. I apologise to them for that, as I shouldn’t have acted in that manner,” he added.
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