A Minister of State in Ghana,
Rockson Bukari has resigned his position after he was caught on tape attempting
to bribe a journalist.
The Minister was trying to stop
the journalist from publishing damaging reports involving a mining company.
Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo,
has since accepted the Minister’s resignation and wished him well.
This was disclosed by the
Communications Director at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, according to Daily
Trust.
Bukari, who was the Minister of
the Upper East Region at that time, was captured on tape attempting to bribe a
journalist to stop him from publishing disparaging reports on Shaanxi Mining
Company and a judge in 2018.
He had initially debunked the
claim.
The Presidency said the former
Minister tendered his letter of resignation to the President on Monday 29th
April.
The Presidency said he resigned
because he had “taken note of the tape circulating in the media, “and had,
therefore, taken the decision to resign “In order not to allow the tape to
disrupt the focus of the government in delivering on its mandate.”
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