The Member of Parliament (MP) for North, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, slammed broadcaster Paul Adom-Otchere for criticising his publication of a 187 million Ghana cedi transaction he describes as the 'kitchen scandal.'
In the publication, Ablakwa alleged that the cousin of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, was seeking to enforce payment of the said sum even though the current government has varied the contract.
He also implicated the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame, in the said transaction.
Paul Adom Otchere, in an editorial on his Good Evening Ghana, on Tuesday, August 2, 2023, slammed the MP for the allegations he made.
According to him, the MP was crying foul, because Gabby and Dame had nothing in the said transaction.
He explained that Gabby was only contracted by the company whose contract was terminated by the government to help them get their judgment debt and Dame as the attorney general, is the one who looks into contractual agreements of the government.
Adom Otchere was particularly bemused by the theatrics surrounding the publication by Ablakwa.
“The ‘Kitchen Scandal’ drops at 5 am, a Member of Parliament, former minister, you can you do that... You know that this letter that you have received, you have received it in the privileged position as a Member of Parliament because somebody has given it to you.
“You should look at the letter and know that this is confidential, and you have the power to summon the attorney general. You have the power to summon the Minister of Finance. You have the power to summon the Ghana Revenue Authority, the governor of the central bank, you have the power to summon all of them, but you decide to do it like it's a new movie, the Kumasi movies... it looks like some Diablo movie,” he said.
He went on to say the MP failed to acknowledge that his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), is the source of the scandal, if there is really one.
He reiterated that the attorney general and the cousin of the president had done nothing wrong.
“Let's get serious in this country… This one is a no, no, because there's no scandal anywhere anyway. And if you were to look at it, the people who have really created a scandal are his colleagues whose names we don't want to mention tonight, because they did their work for government and we assume that they did their work faithfully.
“But if we are talking about a scandal, if we are talking about governments coming to the place where there's a problem, it was created by them, and it has been resolved. But the one who is resolving the problem rather, you are calling him bad. It is Godfred Dame who is resolving the problem,” he said.
Source: Ghana Web