Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress [NDC], Samuel Gyamfi, has ripped into Ghanaians accusing them of easily entertaining frivolous issues without recourse to the facts.
The outspoken NDC communicator was speaking to the brouhaha generated by the current Airbus bribery saga.
Reports of a bribery scandal emerged over the weekend citing Ghana, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Taiwan as destinations where Airbus, the largest aerospace multinational in Europe, admitted that it paid huge bribes in order to secure contracts.
The Crown Court at Southwark in the United Kingdom passed judgment on 31st January 2020, between the Director of the Serious Fraud Office and Airbus SE, in which the European multinational aerospace corporation was fined $3.9 billion for the payment of bribes to secure deals in the five countries named Ghana.
The London High Court found Airbus guilty and imposed a fine of three billion pounds (£3bn) as penalties.
Airbus was charged with five counts of failing to prevent bribery, having used a network of secret agents to pay large-scale backhanders to officials in foreign countries to land high-value contracts.
In the case of Ghana, the operations were reported to have taken place between 2009 and 2015; during which period John Dramani Mahama served as Vice President and then later as President.
According to the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Airbus hired and disguised payments to a close relative of a government official in Ghana with no aerospace experience in connection with a sale of military transport planes.
Incidently, no names were however mentioned in the report.
Clearly unimpressed with the finger-pointing directed at his party's flagbearer, Sammy Gyamfi in a fit of anger exploded that there is no credible facts to conclude the ‘Government Official 1’ cited in the airbus ruling was former President John Dramani Mahama as being bandied about by the ruling New Patriotic Party [NPP].
“Let me be very blunt, Ghanaians entertain useless issues,” he told Akwasi Aboagye, host of NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’ in an interview.
Listen to interview...
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Why. ? Why do you interview this guy koraaaa?
today airbus bribe is ***barred word*** issues, do you remember PDS? and when it was clear that this government has done an excellent job with it, you still insisted that Nana Addo should be hanged, you see how God has exposed you? if it had happened under Nana Addo, will you be sitting here telling us it is a ***barred word*** issue? you see what happens when you fight against God and his anointed? animguase akwaaba
I feel insulted. We are really concerned about the integrity of the man who wants to lead this nation again and we are being told to literally ***barred word***. We won't ***barred word*** now and on the day that it matters most i.e. Dec 7, 2020 we shall speak again with a louder voice and a resounding rejection of the NDC
MASSA, THE ISSUES WE ENTERTAIN ARE JUST LIKE YOU, YOUR BOSS AND YOUR PARTY! NO QUALMS
***barred word*** dog
this young man doesn't have a job after university but waiting for mahama to become president so he can have free money and ride in big vehicles. if Ghanaians do not entertain ***barred word*** issues, then people like you couldn't have had the opportunity to be sitting on tv and radio from morning to night everyday. find yourself job to do wai Sammy
Yes, Sammy Gyamfi, and that is why a person like you is being entertained on air waves.