The incarcerated convener of pressure group – #FixTheCountry, Oliver Barker-Vormawor has described as false allegations by the ruling NPP’s Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe, alias Abronye DC, that he is a hireling of former president John Mahama.
Writing from remand where he is being dubiously held on supposed treason felony charges over his use of the word “Coup” on a Facebook post, Mr. Barker Vormawor described the foul-mouthed Abronye DC as engaging in “gutter politics”, likening the motor-mouth Abronye to a fly which pursues feces into a gutter.
“One does not interrogate why a fly is drawn to excrement,” he wrote, adding, “A person who lives in the gutters craves companionship, and I have little appetite for the gutter politics the 4th Republic has normalized.”
Following his arrest over false allegation that former President Mahama was plotting to stage a coup through hirelings at Boko Haram and Al Qaeda, Abronye had alleged that Barker Vormawor’s supposed reference of a “coup” was at the urging of former president Mahama.
According to him, this is because Mr. Barker-Vormawor had served as an appointee of Mahama while Mahama was president.
Mr. Barker-Vormawor, he alleges, was paid GH¢20,000 monthly as an advisor to former President John Mahama.
But in the February 20 write-up from custody, the #FixTheCountry Convener said the allegations were false.
“My Secondment Letter was signed by the current secretary to the Cabinet of President Nana Akufo-Addo. At the time, she was Director of Administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs…I remained at all times a staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs… I was at all times on my Civil Service pay, earning between 800 cedis to 1000 cedis net monthly,” he stated.
According to him, in April 2013, he was on secondment to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to serve as a liaison between the Ministry and the Presidency.
Mr. Barker-Vormawor entreated the Foreign Affairs Ministry to take steps to clarify his status as a Foreign Service officer during the period of his secondment to the office of the President.
Source: whatsupnewsghana