No government official arrested in UK for Money Laundering – Information Minister
Mr Oppong Nkrumah challenged the media in Ghana to crosscheck the information from the British authorities and find out if such an incident has taken place
Jonas Danquah 
The Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has refuted allegations that a Ghanaian government official has been arrested in the United Kingdom for money laundering involving £26million.
According to Mr Oppong Nkrumah, the allegations are untrue and are being spread by some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
‘It is fake and a total fabrication by the biggest opposition party in Ghana that a Ghanaian government official has been arrested in the UK for attempting to launder £26 million’, Mr Oppong Nkrumah said.
He was speaking to Takoradi-based Skyy Power FM in an interview on Monday, October 12, 2020.
“No Ghanaian official has been arrested with £26 million in the UK. No Ghanaian official has been arrested or has been stopped travelling into the UK. No interception of £26 million heading into the UK from Ghana has taken place”, he told the radio station.
Mr Oppong Nkrumah challenged the media in Ghana to crosscheck the information from the British authorities and find out if such an incident has taken place.
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“First of all, I’ll call on the Ghanaian media to engage the UK airport authorities or the UK port authorities to validate it because it is absolutely not true. That’s number one”.
Secondly, he said the government is convinced the fabrication is the handiwork of the NDC.
“We are clear in our minds that it is the NDC. For about one or two reasons. The first person to articulate it publicly is the Hon. Inusah Fuseini, an NDC MP. They are the ones who are championing it and articulating on their online media platforms including radiogoldonline and now you can also find that there’s a fake audiotape that purports to be international news broadcast on it which is being circulated since last night”, the minister alleged.
“It is a total fabrication”, Mr Oppong Nkrumah stressed, insisting: “It is part of the same strategy they used in 2008, in the last, about eight weeks to the elections, where they cook up stories and try to get it to go out and as viral as possible”.
In his view, the NDC is resorting to its stock-in-trade of spreading propaganda because its manifesto is not attractive to the people of Ghana.
"Let nobody deceive the Ghanaianeople by seeking to mix these things and add fabrications to it and confuse the Ghanaian public that any such thing has happened.
Mr Oppong Nkrumah noted that the government is investigating the incident and will take the appropriate sanctions against those circulating the fake information.
