Member of Parliament for Assin South, Rev John Ntim Fordjour
The Member of Parliament for Assin South, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, was captured walking out of a live TV interview on JoyNews’ Newsfile programme on Saturday, April 6, 2025.
The MP, after the incident, took to social media to criticise the host of Newsfile, Samson Ayenini, for accusing him of lying about him walking out of the programme and also acting unprofessionally.
He said that the organisers of the programme were ‘fabricating messages’ against him.
“Samson Ayenini, your producer has denied sending you those ‘fabricated messages’. So inform Ghanaians where you manufactured those smear messages you derogatorily read on your show.
“Where lies professionalism and ethics in journalism? Samson, these are the messages viewers sent onto #Newsfile. Where from the deliberately fabricated smear messages you read? None can be found in your feed,“ he wrote on X on April 6, 2025.
Meanwhile, a video of the Assin South legislator walking off the programme has gone viral.
In the said video, an animated Rev Ntim Fordjour could be fuming and issuing threats.
“We are raising matters and you are (sic)… I’m waiting for them to commit themselves… when I release the bombshells (sics),” he fumed.
The host of the programme, Samson Ayenini, could also be heard saying, “Producers, why did you give him the messages? Shouldn’t you give them to me?”
One man is heard saying in the video, “Reverend this is a national issue, it is not a partisan issue.”
Background:
The MP for Assin South and the Minority’s Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee claimed at a press conference on April 1, 2025, that two flights, an air ambulance and a private jet, might have been involved in drug trafficking or money laundering.
He alleged that one of the aircraft, Air MED flight L823 AM, landed in Ghana on March 20 and stayed for five days without any record of transporting a patient.
These allegations led President John Mahama to order security agencies to “immediately and fully collaborate with the honourable Member of Parliament so he provides all necessary information to investigate the allegations and take all action necessary to expose any drug dealing.”
President Mahama also directed all security agencies to work with Rev Ntim Fordjour to investigate the drug trafficking and money laundering claims involving the two suspicious flights at Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
He emphasised that Ghana has a zero-tolerance policy for drug trafficking and will not allow the country to be used as a transit or final destination for illicit drugs.
As a result, all security agencies must act urgently to address the issue.
Watch a video of the incident below:
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