KT Hammond, a former Adansi Asokwa MP and legal practitioner, has fired shots at TV3 Journalist Keminni Amanor on live TV after he was quizzed about his client, Dr Kwabena Donkor’s involvement and how his trip to Turkey was funded following the Turkish power plant bribery scandal.
Counsel for Dr Kwabena Donkor, KT Hammond, in an interview with TV3 on August 10, 2026, was questioned about the alleged role the former minister played in the scheme.
Speaking in an interview on TV3, KT Hammond appeared displeased with the line of questioning and quizzed Kemini Amanor whether he was under some form of interrogation.
KT Hammond told the journalist to “behave herself” and refrain from questioning him as though he were under interrogation.
He stated, “Behave yourself. Are you cross-examining me? I have written a statement on the instruction of my client, and you are asking me questions on it. And look at the questions you are asking me. What is your name again? I will make sure I do not pick your calls again.
“How can you ask me that? Is it professional to ask such a question? I appreciate how journalists operate, but don’t hide behind questions that are not comfortable. That is a very unfortunate question to ask,” he said.
Meanwhile, KT Hammond, in an earlier statement dated Monday, August 10, 2026, said their client did not know of any request or demand for money in connection with negotiations between the government and ASKA Energy.
Part of the statement stated, “Our client instructs us in very clear language that he has absolutely no knowledge of the allegations linked to him. He completely and emphatically denies any knowledge of a request or demand for any money as alleged”.
“At no point in the course of this negotiation did he once set eyes on the said Mr Asante Berko, nor has he since”.
“He has never met the said Mr Asante Berko all his life; he never discussed any personal benefit of any value whatsoever with Mr Asante Berko or any other person for that matter; he never authorised any person to discuss any such matters on his behalf; he never received any money in any denomination or any personal benefit of any value from Mr Asante Berko or any other person,” his lawyers stated.
The statement added, “Any person or persons who may have made any such criminal demand in his name did so for that person or persons’ own benefit”.
“Our client does not understand that any evidence was led in the US trial which linked him with demanding or receiving any money, cedis or dollars or anything of value to him personally,” the statement said.
“He does not accept that evidence that some other person or persons claimed that they required money from their principals for the benefit of ‘Senior Ghana Official’ or any other title holder metamorphosed into any evidence of criminality or wrongdoing against him,” the statement added.
“We are instructed to notify the general public accordingly, and to state that any publication or statement of any kind which could be interpreted as contrary to the instructions clearly stated above and which will seek to impugn on the reputation and integrity of our client SHALL result in immediate legal proceedings,” Cavendish Chambers said.
Background
The former TOR MD Asante Berko was convicted by a federal jury in the United States over a bribery and money laundering scheme linked to a power plant project in Ghana.
Asante Kwaku Berko, a dual US-Ghanaian citizen, was convicted in Brooklyn on August 6, 2026, on all counts in the indictment, following a nine-day trial before US District Judge Diane Gujarati in the Eastern District of New York.
According to information gathered, Asante Berko and others conspired to pay more than US$1 million in bribes to Ghanaian government officials to help secure a multimillion-dollar power plant deal for Turkish energy company AKSA Enerji Uretim A.S.
The shady deal centres on a power plant deal that was under development and financing between December 2014 and July 2015.
However, details provided by US court documents disclosed that several Ghanaian officials allegedly received bribes to facilitate a power plant deal during Ghana’s power crisis in 2014 and 2015.
The US court document, however, did not provide any names but provided institutions connected to AKSA Enerji’s emergency power project bribe.
The court document detailed that Asante Berko and his co-conspirators paid and conspired to pay bribes to individuals at various levels of the Ghanaian government to ensure that the said company AKSA won its bid to build and operate the power plant.
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"Behave yourself. Are you cross-examining me? Be careful." – K. T. Hammond, lawyer for Dr Kwabena Donkor, fires back at Kemini Amanor over the Asante Berko/TOR bribery case.#DailyBrief #TV3GH pic.twitter.com/NwVUpXcMRW
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