A stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has asserted that communicators of the party were tasked to vilify and “make life uncomfortable” for him.
He said he became a subject of vilification because of the persons he named in the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) report he presented to the President in March 2021.
The former Minister of Science, Environment, Technology and Innovation has said because party and government officials were implicated in the report he submitted, the party antagonized him by tasking some people to torment his life.
According to the report, many government appointees were involved in the illegal mining menace which is also known as ‘galamsey’. He has also voiced out that since the contents of the report which the Attorney General advised the government to treat with contempt for containing nothing substantial with evidence for prosecution came out, he became a subject of attack by party faithful who felt the culprits listed in the report was a means to denigrate the elephant family.
The former head of the Korle-Bu Cardiothoracic Centre says he heard people were told to make life a living hell for him.
But his statement, has been described by Justin Kodua Frimpong, General Secretary of the party, as derogatory.
In his reaction, General Secretary Kodua Frimpong says the lack of evidence to buttress the assertion of becoming a subject of attack by party communicators denigrates the NPP and it was time people were subjected to prove what they say with evidence.
He told TV3’s Keminni Amanor on Hot Issues Sunday, October 29, 2023, that until the allegations are proven, he cannot speak to it as a General Secretary.
“He can provide evidence to buttress what he has claimed, then I can speak to it. I was not called or instructed, none of the national executives have been instructed to go A or go B and I consider it as a derogatory statement against the party. It is high time that when certain pronouncements are made, you journalists also ask them to prove,” he stated.
“If some names had been mentioned, it would made it easy for us to trace even without a name but if you made that simplistic statement that I was told, by who?” he quizzed in addition.
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