Corruption scandal: Minister exposes to new cassettes

General News of Monday, April 29, 2019

Source: dailymailgh.com

2019-04-29

Two new tapes appeared showing that the state's presidential minister, Rockson Bukari, would have undeniably negotiated a bribe for the Upper East regional correspondent for Starr News, Edward Adeti, in order to kill a investigation of a Chinese mining company, Shaanxi Mining Ghana Limited and the oldest judge of the Upper East Region, Judge Jacob B. Boon.

A special badistant minister, Suwaid Abdul Mumin, can be heard on one of the new tapes telling how Chinese society officials had contacted him to implore the reporter to drop a report on his secret talks with the judge. .

In the other cbadette, the minister informs the journalist about the 5,000 Gh Gh he had obtained from the director general of the Chinese society and suggests that he keep the secret, but to "feel free and cut" the money.

In a press release issued on Sunday, Bukari denied attempting to bribe the journalist for hiding the investigative article, stating that he was only negotiating for the journalist be paid for the work he had done for Chinese society.

But before the new tapes appeared on Monday at dawn to prove otherwise, Edward Adeti also reacted to the minister's statement, inviting the former Upper East East region minister to provide evidence in support of his affirmations. The journalist later hinted Sunday night on his Facebook wall that he would publish some of the investigative tapes in his possession to prove that the minister was wrong.

Below are some transcripts of what the Special Assistance and the Minister told the reporter on the phone.

SUWAID: How are you?

EDWARD: I'm fine. How are you, sir?

SUWAID: I'm fine.

EDWARD: Oh, great.

SUWAID: I just want to talk to you about something small.

EDWARD: Ah, okay.

SUWAID: I do not even know how people got to know my relationship with you.

EDWARD: Agreed.

SUWAID: Eehn, they came to tell me something. I said I would see what I could do better, but I do not rebadure them.

EDWARD: Agree, agree.

SUWAID: So, I would like to know what that is. It's about these people from Shaanxi. Do you know that I supply them with fuel?

EDWARD: Oh, I did not know. You did not tell me.

SUWAID: Oh, I give them fuel.

EDWARD: Agreed.

SUWAID: Even to this day, they owe me some 1.6, 1.7 million Ghana Cedis.

EDWARD: 1.6 billion.

SUWAID: Yes, 16 billion.

EDWARD: 16 years old?

SUWAID: Yeah.

EDWARD: Hmmm.

SUWAID: It's like that that we give them gasoline.

EDWARD: Agree, agree.

SUWAID: So, normally, when they do their [car?] they repay.

EDWARD: Agree, agree.

SUWAID: Uh, they pay. But there is a problem. B?, You want to publish something. You want to disturb them.

EDWARD: Eeehn. I called Maxwell today because I saw him, I do not know if he told you.

SUWAID: Eeeehn.

EDWARD: I spoke to him today.

SUWAID: Yes.

EDWARD: That I saw him at the judge

SUWAID: Yes.

EDWARD: The High Court One.

SUWAID: Yes.

EDWARD: It was the 11th of this month. It was a Sunday, two weeks ago. He has actually entered the house of the judge, the High Court One. And he stayed there for three hours, from 3 pm to 7 pm or 6:30 pm So he was there. Then he went out. I explained how everything was going well. I'm sure he was convinced that yes, I saw him because I described what he was wearing, how the van came and went. And again this week too, they returned to him, in front of the judge. And I told him that I knew there was a case between Shaanxi and Cbadius and that it would go there. He knows the implications. In fact, he knew the implications, that is why the van that brought him there, he forced the driver to leave and he himself went into the place. And when he was ready to go out, the pickup appeared again, which meant that he called the pickup. That's why I told him that tomorrow afternoon something would be published about it.

SUWAID: Oh. Yes it is true. But, uh, Eddie.

EDWARD Yeah.

SUWAID: Eddie.

EDWARD Yeah.

SUWAID: I'm holding your leg.

EDWARD: Hmmm.

SUWAID: You're welcome. It will affect us all because of our activities. Just give me the chance. I will talk with them. I beg you. Hold this one for me.

EDWARD: Maybe because of where I am.

SUWAID: Since this thing was reported to me and as a friend, I do not know why people sometimes talk to me. Yes it is true. They confirmed. The guy really confronted me. But I beg you simply do not publish it. I beg you.

EDWARD: He was even trying to deny.

SUWAID: Certainly, he would deny. You do not expect that. I beg you as a friend.

EDWARD Ok, I'm somewhere now. Maybe later in the day.

SUWAID: I'll fix things. I am going to see you. We will work things. Do you know me. You know what I can do. We have been together for a long time.

EDWARD: Agreed. D & # 39; agreement. Because of where I am. May be. I am not at the office. I am in town.

SUWAID: Please do not post it. I beg you. I know the other you have explained to me and that you have published. We have no problems. I beg you. I will fix things myself for you. I beg you.

EDWARD OK, we'll talk, we'll talk. Because of where I am.

SUWAID: But the discussion is yes or no. That's it. But if you keep saying we'll talk, we'll talk, I know what I'm talking about. I am in Tamale. I should have even gone home to see you or I would have looked for you. I did not want us to talk on the phone.

EDWARD: I'll wait for the moment. When you come.

SUWAID: You hold on. When I come, we'll talk about it.

ROCKSON: I want to tell you something, huh?

EDWARD Yes, sir.

ROCKSON: You know that there is a boy named Charles.

EDWARD: Charles. Yes sir.

ROCKSON: Do not get anything from him.

EDWARD: Okay, sir.

ROCKSON: Or he's already seen?

EDWARD: No.

ROCKSON: Haha, good. I went to see people and they have to give you five thousand. I asked them to give it to Suwaid to give it to you.

EDWARD: Okay, sir.

ROCKSON: But hey, Charles is trying to play a role. He does not want to give the money to Suwaid. So, I say that if he comes, say: you do not collect money. That's all.

EDWARD: Okay, sir.

ROCKSON: Because I do not want you to have something directly with him because … I do not want a problem. I think you understand what I'm saying.

EDWARD Yes, sir.

ROCKSON: Because I had the man himself, the CEO. I say that you are my son; so, he said that he gave you five thousand, if anything more would come. I said that is good. So, I asked them to give it to Suwaid to give it to you. So that's what I want you to know. So, if the boy Charles comes, say no, no, no, no, you do not want anything. That's all. If he has to go give it to Suwaid, you can withdraw it to Suwaid. But on his part, do not get it back. That's what I just wanted to tell you.

EDWARD: Thank you, honorable.

ROCKSON: But if they give it to Suwaid, get your money back and feel free and cut it into pieces. That's all. But never, never collect from Charles. Do you know the boy Charles?

EDWARD: I know him.

ROCKSON: Ah, good. Do not collect from him.

Meanwhile, Tongraan Kugbilsong Nanlebegtang, supreme chief of the traditional Talensi region, dissociated himself from Bukari 's remarks about him in one of the investigative gangs leaked last week. The supreme leader has issued a disclaimer regarding these comments in a press release issued this weekend.