UNGA: Kwame Sefa Kayi denies taking $30,000 per diem under ex-president Kufuor

Kwame Sefa Kayi denies taking $30,000 per diem under ex-president Kufuor following allegation that President Nana Akufo-Addo took 190 delegations to this year's UN General Assembly.

The host of Accra-based Peace FM's morning show, Kwame Sefa Kayi, has denied taking $30,000 as per diem under the tenure of former President Kufuor, when he was part of the ex-president’s entourage to the United Nations General Assembly in 2008.

Sefa Kayi, aka Chairman General, made the comments following allegations from some newspapers sympathetic to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the CEO of Accra-based Citi FM, Samuel Atta Mensah and Gabby Otchere Darko, cousin of President Akufo-Addo, who were spotted at this year’s UN general assembly were spending government’s money.

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“In 2008 President Kufuor went to Washington for a state visit from there to UN General Assembly meeting and six media practitioners including me had the opportunity to be part of government entourage. It later came out that we took $30, 000 dollars daily per diem,” the host of “kokrooko” said.

“They used pictures of us in their publications and peddled falsehood about us including my own friend Kobby Fiagbe, Managing Editor of Ghanaian Lens newspaper”, he lamented.

“It it not true and it was a propaganda…..We normally waste time as a country and I will use myself as test case here”, he fumed on the show.

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“Like what happened to me the same is happening to the Citi FM’s Managing Director Samuel Atta-Mensah,” he added

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