Kuagbenu denies Haruna Iddrisu's leaking allegation

Former Chief Executive of Youth Employment Agency Vincent Kuagbenu has denied accusations that he leaked documents in relation to controversy involving Employment Minister Haruna Iddrisu in an alleged financial impropriety.

This was after earlier reports which indicated that the Minister had allegedly requested an amount of GH₵129,089 from the YEA on 17th March 2015 and GH₵900, 7545.68 on 12 May 2015 for travels to ILO meetings in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Minister had subsequently denied reports that the  ministry spent over GHc1 million Cedis it borrowed from the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) solely on travel expenses for international conferences.

According to Haruna Iddrisu, part of the amount was used to offset  Ghana's annual ILO and ARLAC subscriptions.

He believed that the documents in the media about his financial demands from the YEA were all leaked by the Former Chief Executive of Youth Employment Agency Vincent Kuagbenu.

But, in an interview with Accra-based Joy FM, Vincent Kuagbenu said the accusations are false.

“I am not a coward to leak public information to the media. I don’t do that. I take serious exceptions to the statement from the minister. I don’t engage in crap. I don’t engage people to do media work”.

“I am not from Tamale South [the Minister’s constituency], I come from the Volta region. I am not aspiring for any office that he is interested in. I don’t cross him in anyway, he said.

“I am only challenging Haruna to prove that I leaked that information to Manasseh Azure”, he added.