"John Boadu's driver did not pay bribes" – Frimpong Boateng

General News on Friday, February 8, 2019

Source: dailyguideafrica.com

2019-02-08

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation and Chairman of the Interministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Frimpong Boateng, denied the reports that an alleged driver of John Boadu, secretary general of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), reportedly paid bribe to Operations Vanguard, the anti-galamsey task force.

Social media reports in the early hours of Thursday, February 7, 2019 suggest that a scribe driver Mr. Boadu paid 40,000 GHC as a bribe when he was arrested by the work group.

But Professor Boateng, who chairs the IMCIM, told DAILY GUIDE in an interview yesterday that the allegations were false.

He added that his team had not received any information regarding the payment of a bribe by a Mr. Boadu driver to the anti-galamsey working group.

According to him, "John Boadu, Secretary General of the New Patriotic Party, is not even in the country; his driver is not there. It may therefore be an identity theft, but I can badure you that, according to our investigations, the driver of John Boadu is not in this forest. "

The press officer and special badistant of Mr. Boadu, Iddi Muhayu-Deen, also issued a warning, stating that the driver of his bullshit had not been arrested.

According to Iddi Muhayu-Deen, Mr. Boadu would not have a driver named Evans Kwarfo, adding that he had only one pilot named Kwame Amo, living in Accra.

"Kwame Amo does not have a mining concession in the Ashanti region or elsewhere, and certainly could not have been arrested for this offense, as reported in Joy News."

"It is expected from a responsible press house such as Joy News that it verifies their facts before disseminating them, as the very ethics of the journalist profession demands. "

"Mr. John Boadu takes the issue seriously and, while asking Joy News to retract and apologize for this bad service, wishes to warn anyone who uses his name to commit such a criminal enterprise. , including extorting money from people, to immediately give up their own interest.