Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, has said the former Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, was arrested, interrogated and cautioned by the state in 2025.
According to Felix Kwakye Ofosu, claims that no action has been taken against him are untrue.
Felix Kwakye Ofosu revealed that Kwaku Agyemang-Manu will be taken to court and charged in the coming weeks over the Sputnik V vaccine case and the COVID-19 frontier case over procurement violations and causing financial loss to the State.
Speaking in an interview on JoyNews on March 10, 2026, Kwakye Ofosu detailed, “There is a Sputnik V vaccine case involving Kwaku Agyemang Manu. I noticed that he’s been in the news, engaging in bluster and claiming that nobody has touched me. That is not true. He was arrested. He was interrogated, questioned, and cautioned. There are two dockets in respect of him: the Sputnik V case, and then the COVID-19 frontier case.
“So in the next few weeks, the Attorney General will be taking him to court, and he will charge him formally,” he disclosed.
The claim that he has not been touched is palpably false. He was arrested by the NIB a couple of months ago last year. He was interrogated, and he wrote a caution statement.
“The docket on him has been built – two of them… There are cases of positive financial loss to the state and what have you, and things that he did that violated the procurement laws, and what have you, and several other charges that the Attorney General would be referring against,” he said.
His comment comes on the heels of Kwaku Agyemang Manu, who had fired shots at the NDC government following claims they made against him in opposition.
According to Kwaku Agyemang Manu, despite the NDC’s claims in opposition, he walks free without arrest or intimidation.
He asserted that the NDC in opposition stated he would be arrested and locked up, but after a year in office, he is still free.
Speaking in a viral video shared on X, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu stated, “I’m not that desperate; I have not been crying for help. Some people said either I would fall sick or die, but here I stand. Some said I would be arrested and locked up. A year has passed, and here I stand”.
In this world, if you are truthful… not every person would like what you are doing. No matter what you do, you would certainly step on someone’s foot. But when you step on someone’s foot, and you apologise, and the person accepts, great,” he said.
It will be recalled that the Ministry of Health, under the leadership of Kwaku Agyemang-Manu in 2020, paid UNICEF/AVAT over 120 million dollars for Coronavirus vaccines but failed to receive all vaccines from the supplier.
“Ministry of Health, on behalf of the Government of Ghana, paid an amount of US$120,192,379.80 to UNICEF/AVAT for the supply of vaccines. However, 5,109,600.00 doses of vaccines valued at US$38,322,000.00 were supplied to the National Cold Room, leaving a difference of US$81,870,379.80 with UNICEF/AVAT,” the 2022 Auditor General’s report stated.
“This led to public agitation, with critics demanding the retrieval of the over US$80 million at UNICEF/AVAT and also calling for heads to roll.
Also, Kwaku Agyemang Manu was accused of allowing Frontier Health Service Limited to operate without a licence during COVID-19.
“Kwaku Agyemang Manu, appearing before the appointment committee in 2021, explained the decision to allow Frontier Health Service Limited to start testing for COVID-19 at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) before eventually being licensed.
During his vetting, Agyemang Manu admitted to a question posed by North Tongu MP Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa that the company was allowed to start operating when it had not been granted a permit.
The North Tongu MP said the company started operating on September 1, 2020, but was licensed on November 3, the same year, after it had already commenced operations”.
In answering, the Health Minister-designate at the time explained: “In the pandemic, we had a phrase we were using. We said that we were not in normal times.
“There were certain things that we had to do and try to rectify as we go forward because of the urgency of the situation.”
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The Sputnik V vaccine case involving Kwaku Agyemang-Manu: Claims that no action has been taken against him are untrue. He has been arrested, interrogated, cautioned, and will be taken to court and charged in the coming weeks – Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Minister for Government… pic.twitter.com/ADHRSMPiyA
— JoyNews (@JoyNewsOnTV) March 10, 2026