{"id":311914,"date":"2017-04-18T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=311914"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:31:32","slug":"eoco-grills-ibrahim-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=311914","title":{"rendered":"EOCO grills Ibrahim Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong> has gathered that, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama, is currently being interrogated by the Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO).<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s [Tuesday] interrogation, which has lasted close to eight hours, is based on new accusations of financial malfeasance.<\/p>\n<p>Sources at EOCO say Mr. Mahama, the brother of former President John Mahama, has been visiting the office on other charges.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;py0Mrm3rnNDCK9ZokqoOQMDxHHhxgoRm&#8221;]He is the second high-profile person associated with the previous government being questioned by the intelligence unit after the former Cocobod CEO, Dr. Steven Opuni.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong> understands that, several other associates of the previous administration are being grilled by EOCO.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Mahama was contracted under the erstwhile NDC government to execute various projects, notable among them being the construction of a field to house the Ameri power plant, and his alleged involvement in some cocoa road projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ll commit suicide if Ibrahim Mahama is not jailed &#8211; Ken Agyapong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) firebrand and MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, had earlier called for the arrest of Ibrahim Mahama accusing him of being corrupt and fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agyapong threatened to commit suicide if Mr. Mahama escapes jail term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will take in poison and kill myself if Ibrahim Mahama is not jailed, he should watch and hear me well, I will take in poison and die if Ibrahim is not jailed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Mahama rebutted the allegations, and said his hands were clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo and tell him [Ken] that I can be more ruthless than he thinks he is, but I just respect myself, my family and Ghanaian people hence; I have restrained myself following him into the gutter in spite of his numerous unsubstantiated and wild allegations and most of the time, pure lies,&#8221; he replied in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi News has gathered that, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama, is currently being interrogated by the Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO). Today\u2019s [Tuesday] interrogation, which has lasted close to eight hours, is based on new accusations of financial malfeasance. Sources at EOCO say Mr. Mahama, the brother of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[372,3,2383,464],"class_list":["post-311914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-eoco","tag-ghana-news","tag-ibrahim-mahama","tag-mahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}