One of the major scandals during the John Mahama administration was the 'Vicky Hamah $1 million' saga, which involved then Deputy Minister of Communications, Victoria Hamah.

This scandal, along with others, significantly impacted the Mahama government and played a role in their defeat in the 2016 elections.

The saga stemmed from an audio recording of a conversation between Victoria Hamah and another individual, where the former deputy minister allegedly promised to quit politics if she received $1 million.

She was again heard saying: “…I told Rachel that I really understand politics...I will not quit politics until I make one million dollars. If you have money, then you can control people.”

It was revealed that Lawrence Quayeson, a driver and relative of Victoria Hamah, made the recording.

Initially, Quayeson implicated then-Deputy Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection, Rachel Appoh, as the one who tasked him with the recording.

However, he later changed his story during an interview with Joy FM.

In a November 2013 interview with Joy FM, Quayeson claimed that he was pressured by Victoria Hamah's family to falsely accuse Rachel Appoh.

Now, eleven years later, Rachel Appoh has broken her silence on the matter, asserting her innocence and providing spiritual insight into the ordeal.

During an interview on Kingdom FM, the former Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central clarified that she was neither present in the car with Victoria Hamah nor involved in the phone conversation.

She shared how a prophet had forewarned her about the upcoming scandal that would impact her and jeopardise her political career.

"Then the driver made those allegations on some radio stations… Two days after the driver made those allegations, he came out again to say that he was arrested and coerced by Victoria Hamah’s family to make those allegations against me and that I wasn’t the one who contracted him.

“Victoria Hamah knows that I wasn’t the one who recorded her. It happened and I have moved on from it. People keep asking me about that issue but I want to state clearly that I wasn’t the one in the car and I wasn’t the one she was talking to on the phone. I wasn’t the one who recorded her.

She was talking about me to someone and, unfortunately, said a few things about President Mahama. I don’t know the person who did it, though reports are that it is the driver,” Appoh recounted.