President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has rejected a $500,000 Christmas Hamper offered to him by an unknown corporate organization.

Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency of the Central region, Kennedy Agyapong speaking on a Accra TV station revealed that, Nana Addo rejected the money when the organization visited him on December 23, 2016.

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"On the 23 of December, a company paid the then president-elect a visit to wish him well ahead of the yuletide where they dropped the said amount but he rejected," he revealed.

He noted that, Nana Addo's rejection of the $500,000 Christmas Hamper gives him credence of fighting corruption in the country.

"All these should tell you that Akufo-Addo is not corrupt," he added.

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Nana Addo said, "We have decided that as much as possible we want to take the politics out of it."

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He has indicated one of his priorities would be to establish the Office of a Special Prosecutor to deal with corruption.

The move, according to him was intended to separate politics from criminal investigations.

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"If your goal in coming into government is to enrich yourself, then doesn’t come. Go to the private sector. Public service is going to be exactly that; public service!," Nana Addo noted.