In the words of Abu Jinapor, Deputy Chief of Staff, “the President, Nana Akufo Addo was given the benefit of the video”.

The video being referred to was a portion of the upcoming work by Anas Aremeyaw Anas that details alleged corruption at the highest levels of power in Ghana.

The President of Ghana's response was to report the matter to the Police CID, who then asked Ghana Football Association boss Kwesi Nyantakyi – a central figure in the videos – to assist in investigations.

But even before the President was able to see sections of the journalist’s work, a few people had. One of them was former President John Agyekum Kufuor.

Seated in a room at his Airport Residential Area home, the President watched parts of the secret video recordings used in the exposé.

With each passing scene, his disbelief grows. But he does a good job of looking placid.

That is, until the part where Nyantakyi details how much is needed to buy influence at the Presidency, the highest office in Ghana.

One minute, President Kufuor had a furrowed brow, the next, as Nyantakyi’s recorded voice reached out from the laptop…

“So if you want this done, then we have to sort people out. We can give the President five million dollars---”

At this exact moment, Kufuor – in one swift, pained motion – grimaces, then closes his eyes, then his lips open ever so slightly. He then drops his head, as in a mea culpa.

Before the force of what he’d just heard could sink in properly, Nyantakyi’s voice pierces the room’s silence again.
“---the vice president, three million [dollars]---”

Kufuor closes his eyes tighter. Just as Nyantakyi’s voice continues to explain who and who can be paid how much, the President opens his eyes again.

Fifteen seconds before, the President’s eyes were flashing in what seemed like anger. This time, John Kufuor’s expression was hollow; his eyes, vacant.

He had just witnessed Nyantakyi describe how, with only $11 million, the Presidency of the Republic of Ghana would be open to the highest bidder.

Kufuor manages to speak: “I want the nation to be shocked of this practice; of this evil. I believe Ghana is a country of laws and investigations should be put to work, and of course the outcomes be applied strictly to law.’’

Once the video was done, he looked down for a few seconds. When he looked up again, the Tiger Eye PI team wanted his reaction to what he had just seen.

With those big, droopy eyes, the second President of Ghana’s Fourth Republic simply described what he had seen with one word.

“Evil”.

 

A slice of #Number12. #IamAnas #SayNoToCorruption pic.twitter.com/phQy8Vg2M4

— Anas Aremeyaw Anas (@anasglobal) June 5, 2018

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