Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, has said the former Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, was arrested and interrogated by the state in 2025.
According to Felix Kwakye Ofosu, claims that no action has been taken against him are untrue.
He further revealed that Kwaku Agyemang-Manu will be taken to court and charged in the coming weeks over the Sputnik V vaccine case.
Speaking in an interview on JoyNews on March 10, 2026, Kwakye Ofosu detailed, “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 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 noted 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.
The report also noted that records on COVID-19 funds at the Ministry of Finance, Controller and Accountant-General and Ministry of Health indicated that the Ministry of Finance mobilised a total amount of GH¢19,112,318,205.12 in 2020 to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The records showed that an amount of GH¢1,978,551,137.46 was mobilised in 2021 and GH¢753,319,842.66 (up to June 2022) to finance the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme and the implementation of the Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan.
In all, a total amount of GH¢21,844,189,185.24 was mobilised to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic”, reports added.
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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