{"id":19124,"date":"2013-11-09T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=19124"},"modified":"2013-11-09T11:19:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:19:35","slug":"ghanas-victoria-hammah-sacked-over-1m-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ghanas-victoria-hammah-sacked-over-1m-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana’s Victoria Hammah sacked over $1m claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Hammah has previously said she was under pressure to steal public money<\/span><\/p>\n

Ghana’s Deputy Communications Minister Victoria Hammah has been sacked after she was recorded allegedly saying she would stay in politics until she has made $1m (\u00a3600,000).<\/p>\n

“If you have money then you can control people,” she seems to say on the tape which has been widely circulated.<\/p>\n

Ms Hammah has not yet commented on the tape or her sacking.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Sammy Darko in Accra says she played a key role in President John Mahama’s election last year.<\/p>\n

Some pundits will feel vindicated over her sacking, as they warned that she was too young and inexperienced to serve in government, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n

In August, she said there was a lot of pressure on her to steal public money because people thought that, as a minister, she was rich.<\/p>\n

She described such demands as “obnoxious”, reports the Ghanaweb news site.<\/p>\n

“Corrupt politicians are the reflection of [a] corrupt society!” it quotes her as saying.<\/p>\n

Ms Hammah first came to the public attention after stumbling several times while making a speech and then saying she had been given the wrong text.<\/p>\n

On the tape, which has not been independently verified, she says: “I will not quit politics until I make one million dollars.”<\/p>\n

She also criticising another deputy minister, calling her “senseless, ugly, loud and egoistic”.<\/p>\n

Information Minister Mahama Ayariga did not give any reason for Ms Hammah’s dismissal in her one-sentence announcement.<\/p>\n

But it comes 24 hours after the tape went viral on social media and was played on a local radio station.<\/p>\n

Her driver has been questioned by the police, after she lodged a complaint, saying her right to privacy had been infringed.<\/p>\n

Police spokesman Freeman Tetttey told the BBC they were investigating whether an offence had been committed.<\/p>\n

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