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Indications are that former President Jerry John Rawlings may be invited by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to answer queries on allegations made by his close associate, Mr. Herbert Mensah, in respect of a secret tape on a GH�90million election spending. The tape, according to Mr. Mensah, allegedly indicated the intention of President John Evans Atta Mills to spend GH�90million on his re-election bid as the flagbearer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC). According to the National Security Advisor, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, the claims by Mr. Mensah are of great public interest which needs exhaustive investigations. Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah, who was speaking on an Accra based radio station also called on the media to fully pursue the issue to its logical conclusion to prove the veracity or otherwise of the claims, since the whole country is interested in it. Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah said since the whole country wanted to know the truth, it was also the responsibility of the media to question former President Rawlings to find out the truth. Mr. Herbert Mensah recently told BNI officials during interrogation that the controversial tape was in the custody of the former President. Mr. Mensah�s interrogation was in reference to the allegations he had made that President Mills was influencing delegates with huge sums of money in his attempt to win the flagbearership of the NDC at its presidential congress slated for July 8 to 10 this year. President Mills however rubbished the claim and called for a thorough probe to unravel the truth of the allegations. Attempts to reach the spokesperson of the former President, Mr. Kofi Adams, on the latest developments were unsuccessful.