The Executive Director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has said his controversial claim that President Nana Akufo-Addo’s relatives used the presidential jet during the Yuletide was made in his capacity as head of a CSO with the responsibility to check government.
Mensah Thompson was forced to retract the allegation that some family members of the President, as well as their companions, revelled in the air with the presidential jet during the Christmas period.
“So between the twentieth and 30th of December, 2021, during the Christmas, the offspring of direct relation of the President took Ghana's Presidential Jet the Falcon EX stream out travelling to the UK only for Christmas shopping.
“They didn't go alone, they went with their companions and celebrated in the sky all through the outing, taking snap recordings and displaying their fortunate experience,” Mensah Thompson said in a Facebook post.
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He, however, retracted the statement after the Ghana Armed Forces pointed out inaccuracies in his post.
The Armed Forces also petitioned the police to interrogate him about his post.
In a post on Sunday, January 23, 2022, Mr Thompson revealed that he has been invited by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service over the matter.
“Well tomorrow [January 24, 2022] at 10AM, in the company of my lawyers, I shall be honoring the invitation of the CID at the CID Headquarters to answer any questions they may have concerning the publication I made in my capacity as the head of a Civil Society Organization with key responsibility to check government and it’s agencies!!!” he posted on Facebook.