Deputy Minister of Information, Pius Enam Hadzide has added his voice to the tagging of President Akufo Addo and some of his appointees as ‘sakawa’ boys by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to him, if there is anyone who deserves to be labeled sakawa boy, then it is the NDC flagbearer John Dramani Mahama.
“I hold the view that if we are to look for the real 419 person in this country, it should be the person who went to a Burkina Faso contractor and took a bribe to allow him to work in the country. It is not Akufo-Addo who did that, it is Mr. John Mahama who did that.
“If we are looking for someone who is 419 and is perpetrating sakawa it is the person whose brother living abroad has been declared wanted by Interpol and is being sought by the Special Prosecutor to answer questions on how he was used as a conduit for paying bribes to his brother otherwise known as government official 1 to further corruption and steal state funds when the country was going to buy from Airbus.
Such a person in my view is the real sakawa. It is not Nana Akufo-Addo’s brother who has been declared wanted by Interpol, it is John Mahama’s brother. So if you ask me who the real sakawa is, I will mention John Mahama,” he stated.
He added, “I have my personal subjective views that if Mr. Mahama endorses what Adongo wrote on his Facebook and is interested in finding out who the real sakawa or 419 person in the country is, he should go and stand in front of a mirror, whomever he sees in the mirror is the sakawa and not Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo. However, that cannot be the basis to refer to a whole tribe as sakawa and 419.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com