A former Deputy Minister of Transport and special aide to ex-President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has dismissed a fake social media post that attributed tribal remarks against the Ashanti people to her.
She said the post was shared from a clone account and had nothing to do with her. She also accused the current Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government of being behind the creation of such accounts to tarnish the image of political opponents and sow discord among Ghanaians.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, May 9, 2023, Mogtari wrote that,
“As soon as they announced a government initiative to curb the spread of fake news, I knew that this infamous government had discovered a new scam! Clone the accounts of political opponents and set them up for attacks or create disaffection.”
She thanked those who quickly noticed the fake tweet and alerted her, but urged them to,
“discount, discredit or report the fake tweets instead of sharing same across platforms knowing same to be false, fake and disinformation.”
Mogtari is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Transport from 2013 to 2017 under Mahama’s administration. She is also his official spokesperson and a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Source: The Independent Ghana