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Brown Paper Parcel. One day last November a badly scared African wearing a flappy gown and sandals slipped into the office of the Gold Coast's white British governor. He was tiny Joseph Braimah, 37, Minister of Works in Nkrumah's Cabinet. He told the governor that by accepting gifts from local businessmen, "I have abused the trust placed in me." Incredulous, the governor advised his minister to 1) tell the police, 2) have himself examined at the local hospital. Braimah resigned and last month repeated his tale before Mr. Justice Aku Korsah, C.B.E. and an all-African...
...Braimah told it, an Armenian building contractor named Askor Kassardjian had once sought his help, as Minister of Works, to get a contract to build a college. Kassardjian got the contract, and a few days later dropped into Braimah's home to pay a social call. He left a bundle under one of the cushions, and when Braimah opened it, he found 500 one-pound notes ($1,400). On another occasion, after a drive with Kassardjian, the minister found another ?500 in a brown paper parcel...
...Braimah accused his own secretary of salting away thousands of dollars in graft money. Braimah also told the judges that a contractor had offered him ?4,000 for a big road-building contract in the Northern Territories. The minister had agreed, but a fortnight later the contractor stormed into his office, complained bitterly: "A Greek has got the contract by paying the Prime Minister...