Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s spokesperson has descended on a former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Dr Gideon Boako says Ohene Ntow is not close to government and as such does not know much of its happenings.
Ohene Ntow had previously stated that the Paperless Port initiative should not be credited to the Vice President.
In his assertion, if anyone ought to be credited for such an initiative, the former Trades Minister, Alan Kyerematen should be the one.
But reacting to this observation in an interview on Citi TV on Tuesday, June 20, Dr Boako said Ohene Ntow lied.
According to him, all the meetings to bring the initiative to fruition did not include Alan Kyeremanten.
“He [Ohene Ntow] has no idea, ignore all those comments, no need to respond, all of them are lies. Don’t listen to some of these things. Nana Ohene Ntow is never close to the government, he doesn’t even know what happens in government.”
“I don’t know why they are trying to take credit for something that they didn’t actually participate in. In all the meetings we had with the people of the port and freight forwarders, he [Alan Kyerematen] was not part of.”
“In terms of digitalization, I honestly didn’t see the interplay of Alan Kyerematen,” Dr Boako said.
Dr Boako added that he was with the Vice President on an unannounced visit to the port where this idea was announced.
“Let’s ask ordinary Ghanaians who they associate the Paperless Port with. I don’t need to get into it because of the internal elections. I was with the Vice President when he paid an unannounced visit to the port, it was when we went there that he made that policy initiative.”
“He [Dr. Bawumia] said he will visit them, identify himself with the issues and then bring the policy out, he then brought the Paperless Port. We held a two-day conference on Paperless Port in Ghana, inviting people from Belgium, Dubai ports, and all the best ports including Singapore.”
“I’m sorry to say the former Trade Minister [Alan Kyerematen] was not part of this conference. The Vice President brought all these ideas.”
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