Bindure MP Adopts Ghost Name To Secure Job

By Newman Dotse

Documents available to The Citizen Newspaper badly expose the chameleon tactics of the NPP MP for Bindure in the Upper East Region, Hon. Stephen Mahamadu Dawuni Yakubu, against who he claims to be. According to the documents, Hon. Stephen Yakubu’s real name is Sampson Armstrong Akudugu and not Stephen Mahamadu Dawuni Yakubu as he claims.

Checks by The Citizen Newspaper reveal that the MP is known throughout his Primary and Secondary school days, as well as his days in the university as Sampson Armstrong Akudugu. According to the documents, he was born in 1960 and attended Collins Commercial School at Agogo in the Ashanti Region and procured his “O Level” there, in the year 1983. Shortly after his “O Level”, he moved on to the Navrongo Secondary School, where he had his Sixth form education.

Hon. Stephen Mahamadu Dawuni Yakubu bore Sampson Armstrong Akudugu throughout those years, even throughout his university days at the then University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. Sources close to Hon. Stephen Mahamadu Dawuni Yakubu say the MP used to travel to the United Kingdom during the holidays to do vacation jobs to raise funds for his upkeep.

Conversely, he was always hosted by one Mr. Stephen Yakubu, a senior nurse at one of the hospitals in London anytime he travelled to the U.K.

But Stephen Yakubu alas died and was brought to Ghana and buried. The Citizen investigations indicate that Sampson Armstrong Akudugu, now MP, deferred his course at the University of Science and Technology in 1987and went in for a short course in Nursing, and later returned to the University to complete his education; he graduated with a 2nd Class Lower, with certificate number 19715 and folio number 18715, bearing the name Sampson Armstrong Akudugu. He allegedly approached the late Stephen Yakubu’s family and reached an agreement with them to use the late Stephen Yakubu’s name, certificate and other documents to work because of his diligence and vast experience, pledging to take care of the late Stephen Yakubu’s children and widow in return, hence changing his real name from Sampson Armstrong Akudugu to Stephen Yakubu, with the swearing of an affidavit in a bid to authenticate it.

He later on travelled to the United Kingdom and procured a job as a Senior Nursing Officer, while using the name, certificate and other relevant documents of the late Stephen Yakubu but failed to honour his promise to the family of the late Stephen Yakubu as he abandoned them entirely.

He entered parliament in 2008 with the dead man’s name and certificate which is audibly an offence, according to our statutory book. During the last parliamentary primaries of the NPP, this matter was raised there and he fumbled when he was questioned at the vetting why he was using the name Stephen Mahamadu Dawuni instead of the one on his certificates but the party allowed him to scale through because of his position as a sitting Member of Parliament. Further investigation by The Citizen indicates that he used his real name Sampson Armstrong Akudugu to open a bank account with the Barclays Bank.

Further investigation conducted by this paper disclosed that NDC is well aware of this alleged fraudulent act by the MP but waiting to take action at the right time. Indeed, a time that will be difficult for the NPP to make amends.

This, if not taken serious by the NPP, will certainly pave way for the NDC to grab the seat from them without sweat.

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Source: The Citizen Newspaper (thecitizen.news@yahoo.com) +233 27 731 4655