The Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, Honourable Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus, has revealed that Paul Adom-Otchere’s rant about him on Metro TV ended up making him a lot of money.
A Plus, speaking during an interview on Channel One TV, said that Adom-Otchere’s attack on him led him to launch an attack on his boss, Joseph Siaw-Agyepong, owner of the Jospong Group of Companies and Metro TV Ghana. A Plus claims that Jospong eventually paid him to stop attacking his companies.
The former musician-turned-politician warned Adom-Otchere that if he continues his baseless attacks on him, he risks making him richer.
A Plus explained that after Paul launched a recent attack on him, he turned fire on Jospong, threatening publicly to reveal secrets about his scandal-plagued Zoomlion deal.
He continued that after he turned his spotlight on the deal – which is already under scrutiny from so many angles – Jospong called him for an amicable settlement. That settlement involved a payment to settle the issue.
“I started ‘Waste Management Must Be Decentralised’ because I wanted to attack his boss, Zoomlion, and I spent time on it… His boss called me; Zoomlion called me so many times, but I wasn’t picking up his calls,” A Plus said. “…Paul, ask your boss what happened when he met me. I won’t sue you for defamation. You see I stopped the waste management campaign? Because his boss paid me for his misbehavior on Metro TV. Your boss paid me good money to stop writing about him on social media,”
A Plus added that if following his revelation, Adom-Otchere decides to come after him again, he would expose certain things about his close friends that will shock him.
Recall that several weeks ago, Ghanaian MPs came under the spotlight after reports emerged that they each received Ghc 150,000 to monitor projects under the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFUND), each worth Ghc 200,000.
Many Ghanaians, including users on social media and other politicians and academicians, lambasted the wisdom of giving MPs 75% of a project’s total cost to simply monitor it. “There is nowhere in the world that you are given 75% of what you are given to monitor the project. Nowhere!” Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa said during a series of public lectures held at the University of Education, Winneba.
Paul Adom-Otchere took the criticism further. In a viral clip, he was seen confronting a photo of A Plus, asking him why he accepted the money when prior to entering Parliament, he called out MPs who engaged in such behaviours.
