Razak Opoku blows alarm on doctored tape

Kojo Razak Opoku, head of the public relations unit of the National Lottery Authority (NLA) an audio circulating on social media suggesting he is challenging the authority of President Akufo-Addo is mischievously doctored, heavily edited and the words cut and criminally joined together to create a wrong meaning.

He has denied to have uttered the sentences in the said audio and he described it as a pure studio work of fictional audio.

“We have carefully listened and assessed an audio purporting to be coming from me, Razak Kojo Opoku and in the said audio, I was said to be challenging the authority of President Akufo-Addo with a quotation such as ‘To be honest Akufo-Addo or no one can challenge me, I know how to write and talk’.

“I wish to state categorically that the above statement is mischievously doctored to make me look bad in the eyes of the general public. I never authored those words”, Razark Opoku noted in a statement.

He continued: “It was a telephone conversation between myself and one lawyer. So how come, the voice of the lawyer I had a discussion with is missing?

“This clearly shows that some aspects of the Audio have been highly doctored for diabolical agenda. I, therefore, entreat the general public to completely disregard the audio and its content”, Razark Opoku added.

He is the founder and President of the Concerned Voters Movement (CVM), a rather vocal socio-political pressure group that recently came out to discredit an assertion by Sir Sam K. Jonah that Ghana is experiencing a debt crisis under the watch of Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

Razark Opoku, in the statement noted: “we find this gloom-ridden statement as unfortunate and inapt, especially as it is emanating from an individual who is being described in the media circles as a senior citizen.  Mr. Sam K. Jonah should have used this opportunity better than he did.

“For records, it is absolutely false that the current government continues to borrow hugely to spend, plunging the country into a debt crisis. All the economic indicators cited by Mr. Sam K. Jonah to support his argument were clearly inconsistent with the true state of the Ghanaian economy.”

CVM gave a couple of suggestions: “Akufo-Addo-Bawumia’s government inherited a huge debt coupled with a very distressed economy. We hope Mr.  Sam K. Jonah is aware of this.

“Even in the face of the excruciating economic conditions the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia’s government inherited, the government has managed successfully to honour the social contract the New Patriotic Party (NPP) signed with Ghanaians by implementing most of the policies and programmes the party promised the good people of Ghana.

“So far so good, the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia’s government has implemented a lot of economic transformative policies and programmes aimed at bringing the economy back to life. Facts and figures speak for the government better performance in this case.  Mr Sam K. Jonah should be aware of this.

“Even if monies have been raised by the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia’s government mostly through bonds, it is important to point out that such monies have been used to implement policies that were non-existent since the 4th Republic.”