\u201cI\u2019ve acted for almost two years, but I\u2019ve never been given a salary but do I shout on the rooftops about it? We must raise enough resources such that we can pay ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
His comments come on the back of a leaked recording of a conversation between Obiri Boahen and an activist of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kwaku Skirt, in which he claimed that despite playing a key role in NPP\u2019s victory in the last general elections, he had been ignored since the party came into power.<\/p>\n
According to him, the party has failed to provide him with an official car for his work, adding that \u201cI don\u2019t remember the last time I received a monthly salary from the party.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTill date, I don\u2019t even have an office at the party\u2019s headquarters. To be frank, I have been using my own private car, and the party has not given me any official car for my use as Deputy General Secretary. I buy my own fuel. And even on official trips abroad, I\u2019ll be left to my fate. When I recently went to Germany, it was an NPP Member who bought a\u00a0ticket for me. I went to Spain, Dortmund it was an individual that processed my trip. I do virtually everything, and I don\u2019t remember the last time I received a monthly salary from the party,\u201d he said in the leaked tape.<\/p>\n \u2018No contracts\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Obiri Boahen also lamented that no Minister, DCE or even the acting General Secretary has offered him a government contract, suggesting that others who had not worked as hard as he did to ensure the party won the polls were benefiting greatly.<\/p>\n \u201cNo Minister, DCE, MCE has called for any contract. What is happening is grabbing\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n “John Boadu has never called me to say there is a contract at the headquarters so bring a paper and claim it. It has never happened so I am quiet and watching,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n However, John Boadu dismissed this assertion on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, intimating that he does not give contracts to party officials<\/p>\n \u201cIs that what is supposed to be done; that ministers will call party officials and dole out contracts to them, that as I sit at the headquarters, I should be able to call my colleagues that I have contracts and that they should come for them, is that how the country should be run, that party officials, because we are national officers of the party, we must be given vehicles just because we are in government?\u201d<\/p>\n Obiri Boahen has since admitted he made the comments, including his suggestion that the government gave the party GHc50 billion in 2017 for its annual delegates conference, but claimed that he had deliberately misled the NDC sympathizer, who was looking to extort money from him.<\/p>\n The New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Wednesday issued a statement indicating that it had tasked the Steering Committee to look into the claims, saying they were completely false.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following complaints from the Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen in a leaked conversation that he has been neglected by the party and not been paid a salary for months, the acting General Secretary, John Boadu, has clarified that only the National Organizer and General Secretary of the party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":405372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,11],"tags":[129,3193],"yoast_head":"\n![\"nana](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nana-obiri-boahen.png\")