{"id":25577,"date":"2022-09-14T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25577"},"modified":"2022-09-14T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T13:45:35","slug":"felix-kwakye-fosu-and-bawa-mogtari-took-salaries-for-august-2022-presidential-staffer-alledges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/14\/felix-kwakye-fosu-and-bawa-mogtari-took-salaries-for-august-2022-presidential-staffer-alledges\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Kwakye Fosu And Bawa Mogtari Took Salaries For August 2022 &#8211; Presidential Staffer Alledges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An executive assistant to President Nana Akuffo Addo, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe, has called on two aides to former President John Mahama, to deny receiving salaries for August 2022.<\/p>\n<p>His contention is as a result of recent comments by the former president that he personally caters for his expenses plus all he is expected to enjoy as an ex president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I receive only my monthly pension, like President Kufour or President Rawlings was receiving until he died; that is all I get&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"_67lm _77kc\" data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\">&#8220;I pay the electricity bill my house and my office. I pay the utilities for my house and office. I live in my own house so the state does, so the state does not pay anything for accommodation&#8221;<\/div>\n<div data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\"><\/div>\n<div data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\">\u201cThey haven\u2019t given me an office, I rent an office in East Cantonments, I pay the rent myself, I pay for my own fuel, the state doesn\u2019t give me fuel. I pay my own domestic staff, I pay my own medical bills. I pay for my own air tickets when I travel,\u201d he added in a September 12 interview on Accra-based TV3.<\/div>\n<div data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\">\nReacting to Mahama\u2019s claims, Teiko Tagoe posted on his Facebook page (September 13) a Ghana government payment voucher for August 2022 which outlined the salary payment details of 12 people believed to be staff of a former president.<\/div>\n<div data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\">\nAmong those listed are Felix Kwakye Ofosu and Joyce Bawah Mogtari, senior aides to John Dramani Mahama.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd where is that Felix Kwakye Ofosu? I thought your boss, Former President John Dramani Mahama said he\u2019s been paying you and Joyce Bawah Mogtari or this is a case of another double salary?\u201d the presidential staffer captioned his post.<\/div>\n<div data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\"><\/div>\n<div data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\"><\/div>\n<div data-sigil=\"feed_story_ring100003647807855\" data-gt=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;~&quot;}\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An executive assistant to President Nana Akuffo Addo, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe, has called on two aides to former President John Mahama, to deny receiving salaries for August 2022. His contention is as a result of recent comments by the former president that he personally caters for his expenses plus all he is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4553,11941,7960,5241,5800,5468,1461,6569,192,2264,11493,1031,6638,8618,12665,130,6558,3805,11377,4197,10334,5261,6584],"class_list":["post-25577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-bill","tag-case","tag-died","tag-electricity","tag-facebook","tag-felix-kwakye-ofosu","tag-fuel","tag-ghana","tag-government","tag-interview","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-john-mahama","tag-kufour","tag-kwakye-ofosu","tag-mahama","tag-pension","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-rawlings","tag-salaries","tag-salary","tag-travel"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}