Hajia Fawzia Karim, the woman in Nana Addo-Dankwa Akuffo-Addo‘s alleged $40,000 bribery scandal breaks her silence as she reveals it was a donation to NPP ahead of the 2016 general election.
The President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Addo-Dankwa Akuffo-Addo has faced allegations of taking a sum of $40,000.00 bribe to cease the incessant calls for the removal of Alhaji Abass Awolu from office as the director of Urban Roads has been released online.
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The video of the incident started trending on December 1, 2020 on social media that sees the first gentleman of the land Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo taking money from Dr. Agyei Bawuah, Ghana’s ambassador to the United States to beg on behalf of Alhaji Abass Awolu with a woman named, Hajia Fawzia Karim and her said brother, click here to watch the full video.
After the video surfaced online, the NPP released an unedited version of the video that really proved it was just a donation and not a bribe as it was speculated by the NDC.
From the original video released by the NPP, it was recorded when Nana Addo was then vying to be elected as President and the money received was to support his campaign and not a bribe as the NDC want people to believe, click here to watch the original video released by the NPP.
The woman sighted in the supposed bribe video of President Akufo-Addo taking $40,000 in a brown envelope that went viral days ago has broken silence in the latest interview on Asaase Radio.
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As stated by the woman identified as Hajia Fawzia Karim, the said video was recorded in 2016 when the Akufo-Ado was the presidential candidate for then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“…the video was before the 2016 elections. I had about 1000 t-shirts which had the pictures of the then-presidential candidate and his vice and added an amount of GH¢40,000 to support Nana. I went there as a party supporter,”
Hajia Fawzia revealed.
Just like Kweku Baako’s claims, Hajia Fawzia suspects the video was recorded by Salis Yakubu Atsuluho of the Salis Newspaper.
She established that Salis was one of the two persons who accompanied her to Akufo-Addo’s private residence.
She, however, expressed her distress in the interview at the turn of events, condemning the attempt to twist a goodwill gesture for selfish political gains.
Hajia Fawzia Karim also cleared the air on the amount of money she donated to Nana Addo and revealed it was Ghc40,000 and not $40,000
Hajia Fawzia Karim detailed how she was introduced and led to the Nana Addo when he was in opposition and donated T-Shirts and some amount of money to support the party.
Watch Hajia Fawiza’s interview below: