Bawumia’s Spokesman Contradicts Akufo-Addo’s Man On Prez’s Flying Jacuzzi

Gideon Boako, the spokesman for Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, claims President Akufo-Addo has since September 2018, been renting private jets for travels outside of the ECOWAS sub-region on the advice of National Security. 

But the revelation directly contradicts the spokesperson for President Akufo-Addo, Eugene Arhin who has claimed that the president does not travel on private jets.

“I travel with the President on every single trip and on the trip to the UK first, for the Global Education Summit, and subsequently to Germany, the President did not use this jet. I don’t know where he got his information from,” Mr. Arhin told journalists at the Jubilee House on Tuesday, September 7, in a confused attempt to cover up the GHC 10 million President Akufo Addo had blown on his super-luxury junketing with one of the world’s most expensive jetliners.

In Baako’s contradictory account, he said: “The President at all materials times whether he was traveling within the continent across the oceans was using the presidential jet. President Akufo-Addo prior to September 2018 had consistently used the presidential jet until the jet developed some faults and the National Security advised that the presidential jet in such a state will be not proper for travels across the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans.”

Mr. Boako made this known on Accra-based Joy FM’s Newsfile, Saturday.

This flip-flopping is courtesy of revelations by North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, that Mr. Akufo-Addo recently rented the Boeing 737-900ER BBJ3 registered by its Luxemburg owners as LX-DIO for trips to the US and Germany at a whopping US$14,000 per hour, Eugene Arhin told journalists at a press conference that the North Tongu MP had lied.

Meanwhile, Gideon Boako, had made the revelation in justification of the government’s decision to purchase another jet for the presidency.

 According to him, National security has advised against the President traveling on the Dassault Falcon 900-EXE which three of his four predecessors had used supposedly because the Falcon has developed a fault.

Bawumia’s spokesman did not explain exactly what the fault which still has a 20-year lifespan in it is.

According to North Tongu MP, Okudzeto Ablakwa, the president’s junketing on the expensive private jets has cost the taxpayer over Ghc10 million within a matter of weeks.