Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, has alleged that the Ford Expedition car gifted President John Mahama in 2012 by a Burkinabe contractor, was part of a plot to smuggle money into the country to fund the Mahama 2012 campaign for the presidency.<\/p>\n
Mr. Amidu, in a statement, said his claim is based\u00a0on a letter from the Ghana Embassy in Burkina Faso to the border authorities at Paga, dated 29th<\/sup> October, 2012.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”Pn2mTpLTur7HiMFL91qIwSdKp8AhQZqi”]According to him, after President Mahama had assumed office following former President John Evans Atta Mill\u2019s death, he was heading into the elections of 2012 \u201cunprepared financially.\u201d<\/p>\n “However, the President\u2019s friend and beneficiary of contracts, when the President had assumed office, was ready to provide financial support,” the former AG narrated.<\/p>\n He indicated that\u00a0the only way funds could be unconstitutionally imported into Ghana from Burkina Faso was to be “ingenious through the Ford Expedition and a wrapper, wrapping the many dollars needed for the Mahama Campaign. No searches, no questions.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Amidu added that\u00a0the money would have been “retrieved from the vehicle in Accra and the Ford Expedition is useless thereafter to the President.\u201d<\/p>\n CHRAJ investigation a farce<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Amidu also slammed the Commission on Human rights and Administrative Justice’s (CHRAJ) investigation into the Ford gift saga as a sham.<\/p>\n “CHRAJ has no jurisdiction but the President was too happy to have his own institution purport to clear him \u2013 a farce to make the public believe the President has the people’s interests at heart and that his institutions will protect the public purse. But all this while, it covered an unconstitutional scheme at election time,\u201d Mr Amidu stated.<\/p>\n