Paul Adom-Otchere, a Broadcast Journalist, has alleged that the Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Frank Amoakohene, is robbing Ghanaians by taking his wife to America to have a child.
The veteran journalist called for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding a trip by the Ashanti Regional Minister and his wife to the United States.
Paul Adom-Octhere questioned how the Ashanti Regional Minister funded his wife’s childbirth trip to the US, alleging that the cost of the trip could have been between $40,000 and $50,000.
Speaking on his Good Evening Ghana show on June 4, 2026, Adom-Otchere argued, “If I were NDC, I’d be querying him. You don’t seem to have political maturity? We are in government, and then you fly to America with your wife, who is a public servant. Both of you work in the same hospital. You’re a regional minister. Your responsibility is to make sure that the hospital works”.
“Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa sat on TV and said that he would resign from the government if presidential jets were used to fly people abroad. God, being so good, God has a sense of humour. At the time they became president, they had had more people flown abroad than the entire 8 years of Akufo-Addo’s government,” he stated.
He further added, “A 36-year-old regional minister whose salary is not a salary that could have taken him to America. He comes to show that as a regional minister who was also a doctor in the hospital, whose wife is a nurse in the hospital, both of them have travelled abroad, spending nearly $40,000. Amoakohene, this guy, he should be investigated”.
“His wife was flown to America to have a baby. Me and you, can our wife fly to America to have a baby when we are not government officials? Why is he able to do that? And we are not able to do that. He’s able to do that because, as a government official, he has access to money and he decides what he does with the money”.
“That’s why I’m saying that if I were the NDC regional chairman, I’d call him and say, ‘Hey, you can’t do that. You are in government.’ He doesn’t care that he has to protect the image of John Dramani Mahama, who has had confidence in him. He doesn’t care that he has to protect the image of Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, who has had confidence in him”, he said.
Adom-Otchere also accused the minister of using public resources for personal benefit.
He alleged, “You take taxpayers’ money and go to America to go and have a baby, and you are telling us, the taxpayer who is paying, who cannot afford to go to America”.
“You don’t use your position to rob. Amoakohene is robbing Ghanaians by taking his wife to America to go and have a child in America so that the child will have an American passport. And we are Ghanaians. We hold the green passport,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, some Ghanaians on the social media platform X are mounting pressure on the Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Frank Amoakohene, after he shared photos of his wife who delivered a bouncy baby.
In a post shared by Dr Frank Amoakohene, he wrote, “Meanwhile, congratulations to my lovely wife for blessing our family with a bouncing baby boy. We are deeply grateful to God for this precious gift and the joy he has brought into our lives”.
In another post, the Ashanti Regional Minister stated, ” Late-night Father Duties
I think I also deserve some congratulations for working all round”.
However, following the post, netizens have been calling out the Ashanti Regional Minister for flying his wife to deliver their child in the United States instead of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, where he works with the wife.
A netizen wrote, “You worked at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, and your wife also worked there.
Yet when it was time for her to give birth, she did not use the same hospital where both of you were employed.
Instead, she was flown to the United States at taxpayers’ expense because of a Green Card.
Dr Frank Amoakohene”.
Another X user added, “I don’t think you should have exposed the fact that you went to have your child abroad. Why should others have children in Ghana, and you, a minister of state, go outside to have your child there? I like and admire you, but you’re making a fool of those who put you in power. Make Ghana better so we will not need to go abroad and have kids”.
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