Veteran broadcaster, Kojo Marfo, has opened up about events that strained his relationship with former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings.
Speaking in an interview on Asetena Pa with Atoto Mansa, which was aired on YouTube on February 10, 2025, Kojo Marfo said that he had a good relationship with Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings’s husband, the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings.
He said that the former First Lady was in Kumasi once for an event and through his relationship with the late former president, he managed to secure an interview with her when he was a host of the morning show at Angel FM.
“I had two bad experiences at Angel FM. One had to do with Mrs Rawlings… It was not Mrs Rawlings who created the problem; it was someone else who created the problem for me.
“Mrs Rawlings came to the Ashanti Region for some of these works and through President Rawlings, who had become a father, I got the opportunity of interviewing Mrs Rawlings,” he said.
He indicated that during the interview, he asked a number of questions about Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings’s children, especially her daughter Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, which the former First Lady was not forthcoming with.
“We did the interview in the afternoon and being my usual self, I was engaging Mrs Rawlings. We started talking about the kids, and I was asking her questions about Zanetor Rawlings. But she was being evasive and was asking me why I didn’t ask my father (Rawlings) about the enquiries I was making,” the broadcaster said.
He indicated that one particular question about Selassie O’Sullivan-Djentuh, a former boyfriend of Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, who was allegedly given a haircut with broken bottles, did not sit well with the former First Lady.
Kojo Marfo said that after the interview, the former president called him and told him how his wife was displeased with some of the questions he asked her.
He added that while he was trying to fix issues with the former First Lady, someone in the NDC went to make things worse.
“I asked a question about Selassie and after the interview, President Rawlings called me. He (Rawlings) asked me what transpired during the interview and I told him that nothing bad happened. And he indicated that my mother (Mrs Rawlings) was not happy. He asked me to call her and resolve issues with her.
“I think I had pushed that discussion in relation to Zanetor too far for her liking… But subsequently, there was somebody within the NDC, who perhaps did not like my relationship with the Rawlingses, created a problem between me and Madam (Mrs Rawlings). It was not pleasant at all,” he added.
Watch the interview below:
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