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Mahama's minister reportedly sacked from Tamale airport's VIP Lounge

Mabengba explained that the unfortunate occurred when he was relaxing in the lounge with other VIPs including an NPP Member of Parliament for Ewutu Senya East Constituency and Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson.

Moses Bukari Mabengba (Left)

A former Northern regional minister and government envoy to Angola, Moses Bukari Mabengba has alleged that he was on Monday escorted out of the Tamale International Airport VIP lounge Monday by a worker.

He said the worker indicated that a higher authority has asked him not allow former NDC diplomats and heads of government departments to use the leisure room any longer.

He noted that pleas from the other MPs for him to be spared were ignored.

Mr Mabengba was reportedly sent out to join private citizens at the public waiting room.

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“Fortunately for me, I was sitting in the lounge with one of the NPP MPs and also a minister, Hawa Koomson, and I told her ‘look at what your people are doing – they are asking me a former ambassador, minister, an MP not to use the lounge’.

“Meanwhile, I know that while we’re in government this place was free and even cited several examples…I remember when we lost [and] the vice president visited, I received them at the airport, all of them including non-appointees of government, we were all allowed to pass through the VIP and today they did that to me,” he told Accra-based Starr FM.

“In fact, I wanted to refuse that order but I said if I do it that young man might lose his job because they would say he asked me to leave and I didn’t leave,” he said.

Mabengba believes that the decision to bar former NDC government appointees from using the lounge was politically motivated.

“I told them, fortunately for me there was so many NPP people in the lounge with the minister that I will make case out of it not because I want redress but just wanted to be on record that after we left off, we were prevented from using some facilities so that if in future my party comes to government and the same measures are put in place, no sanctimonious pastor or civil society organizations or whatever should come and tell us that what we are doing are not correct” , he said.

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But authorities of the airport have denied issuing such orders.

Airport manager Micheal Omane Mensah said “all former diplomats are allowed to use the VIP”, adding: “I don’t know where that directive is coming from.”

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