News:
August 6, 2012
The vice presidential nominee and out-going Bank of Ghana Governor (GoG), Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has refuted rumours that he is gay and has being engaging in homosexual relationship with his formal school mate.
He discredited the report when he appear before the Appointment Committee of parliament on Monday at his vetting saying he was a Christian lavished with children and will not engage in such in moral act.
They have been some report in the media about the sexual preference of the out-going Governor after he was nominated as the Vice President.
A man named Joseph Kwabena Owusu Sekyere had told the Daily Guide news paper that he and the Vice Presidential nominee fell in love in secondary school and engage in a long standing homosexual relationship.
He retorted how he could go to Mr. Amissah’s office and they both drove to his house to have an affair at Mr. Amissah’s garage and were once nearly caught by the Governors house boy.
At the vetting today, the Member of Parliament for Bekwai, Joe Osei-Owusu raised the issue and asked the nominee if he was interested in clearing his image by speaking about the matter.
The nominee took advantage of the opportunity to rubbish the claim, adding that his lawyers were following up on the issue.
“A number of people think since am the boss I have access government vault to just dip my hands into government purse. They think I have access to unlimited resources and when they come to me I should give them money” he said.
He said a lot of his friends and classmates from secondary school had come to him looking for money, but refused this particular man money he asked of him because he was unhappy with his life style which he claimed had led to the publication of false claims about his personality.
“This is not true I have not seen this gentleman in forty something years, I saw him for about 5 minutes since I left Mfantsipim. My children were the ones who first drew my attention to the fact that we never leaved in a house with a garage”.
He said he never employed a house boy as his accuser had claimed, saying such issues comes from the office he is occupying and will not pay one pesewa to anybody who claims anything, knowing that this claim will blow over.
Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh