Dr Jonathan Asante Otchere, a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, has fired shots at the Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A Plus, over his recent comments.
According to Dr Jonathan Asante Otchere, A Plus comments are grossly irresponsible on his part to make such wild allegations.
He quizzed whether A Plus still sees himself as an MP or thinks he is still in the entertainment industry.
Speaking on Metro TV, Dr Jonathan Asante Otchere stated, “I wonder if Kwame Asare Obeng still sees himself as a member of parliament or is still in the entertainment business. I think it is grossly irresponsible on his part to make such wild allegations without especially going to the appropriate authority,” he said.
“As it were, if you know that your source is good, you should go to the appropriate authority. You can either be a whistleblower or you can even file a question in parliament to elicit the right answers and responses, especially with respect to land. The Land and Forestry Minister should be able to provide answers and responses to that.
“If you really want to reveal those who have acquired, he can also equally go ahead and do so, so that nobody should rather get him angry before he brings them out. I think that is irresponsible on his part,” the UCC lecturer added.
His comment comes after A Plus has threatened to release the land documents of politicians who own State lands.
The MP categorically stated that the John Mahama government’s Operation Recover All Loots(ORAL) has collapsed.
According to A Plus, he knows people in the current NDC government who have also bought government land.
He disclosed that ORAL has failed because President John Dramani Mahama is not being told the truth.
Kwame A Plus is quoted to have said, “Apart from the fact that I know some people in ORAL and their relatives who own government land, I have land documents like this. When they say they are going to start from 2016, I say you guys are jokers.
One day, when I get angry, I will release everybody’s land documents, and it includes people in this government. They know, and now they know it’s their turn. I know people who have just come, bought government land, and have finished building. I know all of them, so no one should talk about ORAL again. ORAL has collapsed because they are not telling the president the truth,” he said.
It will be recalled that a member of the John Mahama Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) team, Martin Kpebu, has revealed that the ORAL committee has a list of all former NPP government officials who bought state lands for cheap.
He asserted that ex-NPP government officials bought state lands around Cantonment at very low prices.
According to Lawyer Kpebu, Okuzeto Ablakwa has a long list of former NPP government appointees who bought these state lands for cheap even before the elections.
Speaking on TV3’s The Key Point on January 18, 2025, Martin Kpebu detailed, “We are making efforts to retrieve all the documents. If we had given them another chance, the whole of Ghana would have been gone. This state capture has to stop. Members of the erstwhile administration bought the lands at $12,000”.
“This list, honourable Ablakwa had this list before the elections, you remember he kept making noise about it, interceptor general, he had these documents before ORAL came in, it is publicly available evidence, he had a long list ”, he added.
Martin Kpebu further mentioned some names of NPP officials who bought state lands for cheap, saying, “You will see Osei Nyarko, Henry Quartey, Bawumia, of course not directly his name, but underground people will tell you that is his, you will see other government appointees a lot”.
The private legal practitioner further revealed that state lands valued at $500,000 were sold to former president Akufo-Addo’s appointees for just $12,000.
He noted that the lands sold to Akufo-Addo appointees for just $12,000 were offered to a vegetable farmers’ association for $500,000.
Lawyer Kpebu revealed, “The vegetable farmers association was asked to pay $500,000 for one plot of land. That is where they keep the vegetables before they export them”.
“Just next to them, this same land was offered to ministers, etc., for GHC160,000. If you convert it, it’s $12,000. It’s within the same space. The documents are out there, and the land is around Cantonments”, he stated boldly.
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