Leaked audio: I fabricated lies to get information from NPP saboteur - Obiri Boahen

Outspoken deputy General Secretary of governing NPP has confessed to being the one whose voice was heard in a leaked tape making some damning revelations about some alleged internal matters of the party.

Obiri Boahen admitted to making those statements but added he deliberately ‘manufactured some lies’ to get information from the other person alleged to be one “Kweku Skirt” who was engaged in a conversation with him.

In an interview with www.ghanaweb.com, Obiri Boahen suggested that he doubted the character of the individual he was conversing with, the reason for which he divulged such false information.

The 'under fire' Deputy General Secretary of the NPP alleged Kweku Skirt deliberately recorded their conversation for mischievous purposes and accused him of blackmailing him by threatening to release the audio should he fail to pay him some huge amount of money.

The outspoken member of the NPP said he took the consequence of releasing the audio for granted because he was confident all he let out were lies and wasn’t bothered at all if Kweku Skirt released the audio to some media houses.

“He told me that the conversation he had with me he had recorded the whole thing and that if I don’t get him money he will play it to the public. Are you listening? Then I told him that I am sorry I can't get him money because what I told him that what I told him a lot of them were fabrications because when we were discussing it dawned on me that he was not a trustworthy character but in order to get more information I just pretended. So he said I should get him some money then I said look I am not getting any money for him. He is at liberty to send it to everybody in this world. Then he said he will send the recording to some NDC media stations then I said I was not going to get you money because what I did was intentionally done to solicit more information from you” he narrated.

He, however, said he wouldn’t retaliate by disclosing to the public some vital information presented by Kweku Skirt because “he is not a credible character”

Buttressing his point, Obiri Boahen referenced staunch NDC supporter and a Mahama die hard, Appiah Stadium and General Secretary of NPP as two individuals who affirmed the dubious nature of Kweku Skirt.

GHC50 billion allegation

In the leaked audio, Nana Obiri Boahen reveals that the Presidency gifted the party GH¢50 billion for its extraordinary National Delegates Conference in Cape Coast last year.

The NPP held its National Delegates Conference at Cape Coast in August last year, at which various proposals were made for amendments to the party’s constitution.

But Mr. Obiri Boahen is heard lamenting about how he was given a paltry GH¢5,000 as a member of the resolution committee out of the GH¢50 billion.

“When we were going to Cape Coast the other time, I was given GH¢3,000 as a member of the Resolution Committee and an additional GH¢2,000 for fuel. Meanwhile, the Flagstaff House gave the party an amount of GH¢50 billion”, he alleged.

Ignored by the party

Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen also lamenting how he is being treated by the party despite his selfless services since 1992.

He purports that some people within the party who contributed minimally to the party’s fortune in the 2016 elections are reaping more than elements like him who have given their all to work for the party.

“As the Deputy General Secretary of the party, NPP has been in power for 11 months they have neither given me a car nor fuel same. I use my own car and buy my own fuel. Recently when I travelled to Spain, they paid for my flight ticket. During a similar trip to Germany, someone paid for my ticket. I have no office of my own and I am not entitled to my salary”, he alleged invoking the wrath of several deities if he lied.

“No Minister, DCE, MCE has called for any contract. What is happening is grabbing grabbing”, he claimed.

“John Boadu has never called me to say there is a contract at the headquarters so bring a paper and claim it. It has never happened so I am quiet and watching”, he revealed.