Boateng-Gyan promised to ensure party foot soldiers are specifically recruited into the Special Forces, according to the tape.
The 35-minute recording is reported to have been made at a purported meeting the national organizer held with the party foot soldiers about two months ago at an undisclosed location.
In the leaked tape, he said: “The other time we were talking about this Special Forces, we haven’t abandoned it. If you are there it does not mean you cannot still work for us. We will send you there, you will be trained and come back and will be working. When the need arises, we will call you, whatever duties will be assigned you then you’d come back and be working for the party.”
He further stated that “during the time that we were in power, those who are following the President now, they were at the party headquarters, they were soldiers but they were at the party headquarters. You ask Kofi Yeboah, he was serving as a guard at the party headquarters so you could be there and later come and serve.”
“So those of you who don’t have the strength to serve in that capacity, you should make up your mind. But this is the immediate thing that we want you to follow,” he added.
He also mentioned in the said recording that he has contacted the Finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor for funds to support the recruitment exercise.
He said: “When they gave me the money and I was leaving, it was the Finance Minister himself who called me and called the Finance Director, and told him that as for you, you always come here talking about somebody, you have never spoken about yourself. So I said I have some boys I am working with but now it is hard getting them planted. So he said ok, bring this, bring this and let me get some money for you so that you can give it to them.”
“So as and when we pay and everybody knows that these people have been paid, I am sure they will increase it. So for all you know, in about two, three or four months, God willing if we win these elections and I know we will win, you will see that all of you will be married or something then you will see what jobs will be assigned you,” he added.
Gyan admits
In an interview with Citi News, Mr. Boateng-Gyan admitted the voice on the leaked tape is his, but said the NDC has no intentions of causing mayhem in this year’s election.
He admitted saying, “well, I am not like some other people, I will just say that yes, that is my voice but mind you, it wasn’t for any bad intentions.”
He explained that his job as national organizer of the ruling party is to ensure that the NDC wins the elections “and some grassroot members have expressed interest to get themselves employed in some of these government institutions and by way of motivation assuring them that we will work it out on merit for those who will be enlisted.”
“I don’t think it is anything out of the role of somebody like me to assure people because we are in this country and when Asamoah Boateng declared that he alone initiated the enlistment of about 300 people for his constituency and that is not a crime to me,” said Mr. Boateng Gyan.
Act on it
Meanwhile, the Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, who made this tape public, has admonished government and the country’s security agencies to act on this matter.
Explaining his actions, he stated that “I want Ghanaians to know and believe that whenever the NDC comes out in public and say this is not what they practice, I want them to know that this is what they do. So if President Mahama is saying that there is going to be peaceful elections, then he should listen to that tape and call his people to order because this is what his whole National Organizer is planning with his own people.”
Mr. Agyapong also clarified that he has no personal problem with Boateng Gyan. “I just want to make it clear to Ghanaians that the way they make their faces as angels, come out there and deceive Ghanaians while hatching their diabolic and associate it to somebody’s face, which is all I am seeking for.”
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source: Citifmonline
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