Posted: Daily Guide |www.dailyguideghana.com
Friday, 24 September 2010
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Vice President John Mahama has instituted investigations into the circumstances under which ‘hot and spicy’ pornographic materials were posted on his official website www.viceprez.gov.gh by some unidentified persons.
This follows a publication in the Wednesday, September 22, 2010 issue of DAILY GUIDE headlined ‘Porno Hits Veep, in which the paper revealed the publication of nude pictures of men and women, both white and black, engaged in ‘hot’ sex on a webpage of the vice president that was supposed to be promoting farming.
These scenes projected the Vice President and the Republic of Ghana as promoting a different kind of ‘farming’ to the country’s youth on the website posted by one Kapmimb Asperee with the following email address terrakot@gaymike18.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with http://lionsearch.ru/swinger/1, http://lionsearch.ru/swinger/2 and http://lionsearch.ru/swinger/3 links, all in jpg format to the sex scenes.
But a statement issued by the office of the Vice President and signed by his spokesman, John Abdulai Jinapor said Mr. Mahama had since ordered the immediate suspension of the discussion forum on the website. Mr. Jinapor had earlier, on a number of radio stations, denied that there were such pornographic materials on the website.
Consequently, the Vice President has charged the Information Technology (IT) department of his office and those responsible for the website to conduct an audit of the security features of the site.
For this reason, the interactive section of the Vice President’s website has been suspended until the security features are enhanced.
The Vice President indicated that the intended purpose of the ‘Forum’ was to serve as an interactive platform for visitors to the website and to enable Ghanaians and all others to follow his activities as well as have direct contact with his office, stressing “the reported posting of unacceptable materials in the discussion forum is obviously a problem, and the Vice President has accordingly directed that the forum be removed.”
He has thus resolved “to activate the ‘Forum’ when we are assured that the security features on that section of the website have been enhanced.”
The Vice President said he was more than merely convinced that the story was published with the intention to alert the general public, stressing the need for the paper to have drawn the attention of his office to this anomaly instead of putting the unsavoury pornographic photo next to a picture of him in a pensive mood.
He has therefore apologised to all who might have been embarrassed by the offensive materials on the forum’s page.
His office however says it is happy with the level of co-operation between it and DAILY GUIDE following the publication. It assured the paper that its doors are always open for future co-operations in a bid to serve this nation.