The Member of Parliament for Assin Central and Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior, Rev. John Ntim Fodjour, has issued a strong call to Sampson Lardi Ayenini, host of Joy FM’s flagship news analysis program Newsfile, to clarify the origin of text messages read on the show last Saturday.
According to Rev. Fodjour, the messages in question largely dismissed his recent exposé as falsehoods aimed at undermining the current administration. He insisted that the texts were not authentic reflections of public sentiment, but rather fabricated inputs intended to discredit his revelations. The MP further claimed that his suspicions were validated by the show’s producer, who allegedly denied forwarding any such messages to the host. Rev. Fodjour made this known in a Facebook post.
He further intimated that he never walked out of the show as has been propergated by the host . According to him , ‘
the show host , Sampson Lardi Ayenini only booked me for a segment on the show and so after that segment when the show had gone on break i left only to be told later that the host had mischiviously annouved that i walked out ‘ the MP told this reporter .
The lawmaker has come under fierce criticism, particularly from opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicators, following his disclosure of the presence of two foreign aircraft—AirMed Flight N823AM and the Cavok Antonov An-12B—on Ghanaian territory under unexplained circumstances. The gravity of his allegations has prompted President John Dramani Mahama to instruct national security agencies to work closely with the MP to investigate the matter to its logical conclusion and take the necessary action.
Over the weekend, leading NDC figures including Felix Kwakye Ofosu and Sammy Gyamfi launched scathing attacks on the MP, seeking to discredit the exposé and diminish its political impact. They accused Rev. Fodjour of orchestrating the revelations as part of a broader scheme to tarnish the image of the government.
Rev. Fodjour, however, maintains that Sampson Lardi Ayenini may have aligned himself with the opposition’s propaganda efforts, and suspects that the controversial text messages were deliberately crafted to undermine his credibility on a national platform.
