The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has described as shameful and unprofessional, accusations by a private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu that President Akufo-Addo is a part of a criminal syndicate operating from the Jubilee House.
According to the Ofoase Ayirebi MP, the corruption-related accusations against the President are without any factual basis.
Mr Kpebu commenting on a survey by the Ghana Statistical Service and the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice which revealed that some ¢5 billion was paid as cash bribes to workers in the public sector, said the President is unable to stamp on his authority on corrupt officials because he’s also neck deep involved in such acts.
“We have to say with all the energy we can master that he is part of the criminal syndicate and that, look, we will not take this from him – he has to just step down. He is not interested in any process because, in opposition, he said he would use the Anas principle, he wasn’t going to use this adversarial system. What’s the Anas principle – private investigations. The President should tell you and me how many Anas principles he has used since he came – an abysmal failure, this is a 419.”
“I think so far the President, probably, hasn’t heard; maybe, we need to repeat it more forcefully for him to hear that he is part of the criminal syndicates at the Jubilee House – the President is certainly part.”
“All these corruptions cannot happen without the President’s involvement,” he said on Joy News’ Newsfile program on Saturday, July 23, 2022.
But in a sharp rebuttal, the Information Minister has condemned the utterances of Mr Kpebu and described them without any factual basis.
On his social media handle, Mr Oppong Nkrumah also took on Joy FM and Multimedia for allowing its platform to be used to denigrate the President.
“It is shameful and totally unprofessional to hear lawyer Kpebu without any factual basis, accuse the President of the Republic of being a member of a criminal syndicate. Even more worrying is the fact that a media house which is to be respected airs such content and happily reproduces it on websites and social media in a bid to achieve clicks and revenues on the backdrop of unfounded insults at its national leaders. We all uphold freedoms of speech and association but let’s be responsible in how we do this,” he said in a series of tweets.
