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The Member of Parliament for the Aburi-Nsawam constituency, Osei Bonsu Amoah has described as malicious leaked cables suggesting that the opposition New Patriotic Party’s presidential candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo is an occasional marijuana user.International whistle blower website, wikileaks, in its recent cable leaks from the US Embassy in Accra, quoted the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwasi Pratt as saying “Nana used to smoke a lot of marijuana…and I’m telling you a lot. Even in the morning, there used to be a cloud around him and you could see that he was high”.There have been varying reports in the Ghanaian media today over the cable leaks with some newspapers reporting that the wikileaks report brands Nana Addo as a marijuana user.But speaking on Adom TV’s morning show, BADWAM, on Multi TV, the Aburi-Nsawam MP dismissed Mr. Pratt’s assertions about the NPP’s flag bearer describing Mr. Pratt as a habitual talker who has often spoken ill of his own colleagues.Nana Addo in the build up to the 2008 presidential elections faced a barrage of criticisms over his alleged drug use but Mr. Amoah insists those criticisms were “just an attempt o denigrate and discredit a popular candidate of a majority party just [so] that another party will have its way.”“All these are hearsays” he said adding that “if the American Embassy is aware the NPP flag bearer was once arrested for drug issues, it would have been part of the report.”According to Mr. Amoah, the Insight newspaper Editor was contracted by the then opposition National Democratic Congress [NDC] to make such statements about Nana Addo to the then US Ambassador just to discredit him.
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