Herald’s Editor Petitions US Embassy Over Dubious US$ 10,000 Single-Day Plane Ticket By Presidential Staffer

Editor of The Herald newspaper, Larry Dogbe, says he is petitioning the US Embassy in Accra to probe the questionable travel of Presidential Staffer, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe who blew US$10,000 on a one-day plane ticket.

Amidst cries of a collapsed economy supervised by the government of President Akufo Addo, Presidential Staffer, Nii Teiko Tagoe bought a first-class plane ticket to the US, on September 13, 2022 and returned on September 14, 2022-expending the staggering amount on a trip of less than 24 hours.

“We’ve instructed our lawyers to petition the American Embassy in Accra on the presence of Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe in the US on September 13 &14; nature of Visa, passport type, etc. We also want to know the whereabouts of his two missing heavily-loaded bags,” Mr. Dogbe noted on his Facebook page.

the post added, “It’s unimaginable that the Presidential Staffer, a public servant paid US$10,000 for KLM’s World Business Class ticket just to eat lunch on his way to New York City and do dinner onboard Delta Airlines to Accra, on his way home hours after landing.”

The Herald had earlier written a story alleging that the presidential Staffer is a carrier of a diplomatic passport and that he had traveled to the US where he was detained and deported the same day.

According to the story, Mr. Tagoe has since been instructed to get clearance with the Embassy in Accra before ever embarking on any trip to the US again in the future.

The story has since led to questions as to why a whole presidential staffer with a diplomatic passport was deported from the US, with many people loudly imagining he probably was involved with money laundering.

In response, Mr. Tagoe denied holding a diplomatic passport and claims that he had been deported. He also threatened to sue the journalist over the report.

But Larry Dogbe has since posted a flight itinerary covering the journey of the presidential staffer.

Per the itinerary, the presidential staffer left Accra on September 13 and arrived in Dallas having transited the Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, he arrived in the US on the 14th and returned on the same day via a United Airlines flight.