Political science lecturer, Dr Joshua Jebuntie Zaato, has called out double-faced Martin Kpebu following his criticism of a bail condition meted out to him by the Office of the Special Prosecutor after his arrest.
Dr Zaato noted Kpebu’s hypocrisy that when Paul Adom-Otchere was arrested by the OSP, and was asked to provide landed properties as a bail condition, Mr Kpebu was happy, accusing Adom-Otchere of misleading the OSP when he said he had no property.
However, when Mr Kpebu was arrested, he claimed the OSP demanding a landed property in HIS name before bail looks like a joke.
Speaking during a panel discussion on TV3’s Big Issues on Saturday, Dr Zaato stated, “He said worse things than he said about Kissi Agyebeng, he said things here about Akufo-Addo, he said things about Dr Bawumia, nobody touched him, and now all of a sudden under the so-called new freedom, the second independence. Under this regime, Martin Kpebu cannot sit on air and speak his mind without the state arresting him. Kissi Agyebeng is the state.
You see the hypocrisy, Paul Adom-Otchere went through the same thing when it happened you were happy, JOYFM report, on August 1st 2025, ‘Adom-Otchere was misleading OSP when he said he had no property’, today the same JOYFM is reporting ‘OSP demanding a landed property in my name before bail looks like a joke’.
Dr Zaato further slammed Parliament, particularly the Majority Caucus, “When Paul was arrested by the OSP, nobody in Parliament got up and said that the OSP’s office was being abusive. When Paul was taken away and denied his basic rights, nobody said anything”.
Are we saying that some people deserve it and others don’t? Where is our sense of fairness? Where is our sense of fairness as a society to say that wrong is wrong and that we shouldn’t do it?
If your idea is that Kpebu is better than Paul and that when it happens to Paul it’s okay, it’s justified, but when it happens to Kpebu it is not justified, what kind of society are we building?”, he quizzed,
Dr Zaato added, “Both Paul and Martin are victims of a state that is increasingly trying to criminalise speech, all this is happening before the new cyber law. Imagine for a minute if that law is passed. There are two things, and I’m asking that if we are getting into these debates, let us try to be a little fair”.
“Tyranny in every form is bad. That’s why I said that a threat to human rights anywhere in any form is a threat to human rights everywhere”, he added.
His remarks follow, Martin Kpebu being arrested by the OSP following Martin’s granting an interview outside the premises of the office of the Special Prosecutor and then going back into the building.
One of the officers was not happy with the interview, but Martin challenged him, insisting there was nothing wrong. It led to an altercation after which Martin was arrested and charged with the offence of obstructing an officer of the OSP.
He was then given bail conditions which required him to provide documents showing a landed property in his personal name and one surety.
His lawyers proceeded to obtain the documents from their office, only to return and find out that Martin had been whisked away to an unknown location.
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Dr Joshua Jebuntie Zaato, I take a bow…. The studio was like cemetery at a moment, hypocrites!!!pic.twitter.com/Sa0mpoXS1M
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