Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, Kwame Asare Obeng popularly known as A-Plus has revealed why he stopped talking about Zoomlion’s contract on social media after he was attacked by broadcaster Paul Adom Otchere.
Paul Adom Otchere’s in one of his episodes on Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV accused A Plus of receiving GH¢200,000 and an extra GH¢100,000 for a project in his constituency, and allegedly pocketing the funds to silence his once-vocal criticism of government.
Reacting to these allegations on Channel One TV, A Plus revealed that he was paid a huge sums of money by Joseph Siaw Agyepong, the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jospong Group of Companies to end his campaign for the decentralization of waste management in Ghana, which would hurt the operations of one of his companies, Zoomlion Ghana Limited.
According to A Plus, he started the decentralization of waste management in Ghana campaign to hurt the one who pays Paul Adom Otchere because the broadcaster doesn’t have anything valuable for him to attack aside his wife.
“So, this man takes my photo, puts it on TV, saying, ‘A Plus, you have gone to take GH₵250,000…’ He said a lot, and this money he is talking about—you say you are NPP, and the money is being given to parliamentarians, so why are you not talking about the NPP parliamentarians? Okay, so A Plus will not say anything. I have grown, but I am a very bad guy. When he did that, I didn’t respond; I just left him.”
“Then on Monday, I started ‘Waste Management Must Be Decentralised’ because Zoomlion owns Metro TV. So, if you use Metro TV to do that, Paul, you don’t have anything of value that I will attack apart from your wife.”
“I started ‘Waste Management Must Be Decentralised’ because I wanted to attack his boss, Zoomlion, and I spent time on it. You see where all the Youth Employment issues are heading? Yes, I will have time. I will deal with you. His boss called me; Zoomlion called me so many times, but I wasn’t picking up his calls. Everyone in this country was calling me, saying Zoomlion wants to talk to you, but I wasn’t picking up. Paul, ask your boss what happened when he met me. I won’t sue you for defamation. Have you noticed I stopped the waste management campaign? Because his boss paid me for his misbehavior on Metro TV,” he added.
