{"id":489327,"date":"2011-10-12T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/10\/12\/%e2%80%98stupid-minister%e2%80%99-blues-govt-communicator-stripped-naked\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:51:38","slug":"stupid-minister-blues-govt-communicator-stripped-naked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/10\/12\/stupid-minister-blues-govt-communicator-stripped-naked\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stupid Minister\u2019 Blues&#8230;Gov&#8217;t Communicator Stripped Naked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/6bd5cad68397_323590.jpg.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c6\" \/><span>A claim by Benjamin Akyena Brentuo, a member of the ruling party\u2019s Communication Team on Joy Fm\u2019s flagship programme, Newsfile, last Saturday, that per a supposed police preliminary investigations, the checkpoint at Mankessim in the Central Region, where the Deputy Minister of Interior, Kobby Acheampong had altercation with the police was unauthorized, and was also at a dangerous place has been refuted as pathetic lies by the police service.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Public Relations Director of the Police Service, DSP Cephas Arthur, told this paper in a telephone interview yesterday that, \u201c\u2026I don\u2019t know where he had his information from but ideally, the police wouldn\u2019t divulge any part of investigation when investigation is still in progress, so I don\u2019t know where he got it from and so I will not be able to confirm it or otherwise\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When this reporter drew his attention to the fact that the NDC functionary had claimed on the programme that Ghanaians could double-check from him (DSP Cephas Arthur), he said, \u201cWell to the best of my knowledge I haven\u2019t had any hint of such an assertion because I know that the matter is under investigation and I am not part of the investigation, I am only a mouthpiece and I know that the police wouldn\u2019t want to divulge such information when it\u2019s still under investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cephas Arthur, he could not tell whether Akyena Brentuo was quoting from his own source but in relation to what he(Akyena Bretuo) said on Newsfile, \u201c\u2026he can\u2019t be quoting from us\u201d, adding that \u201cI don\u2019t know where he got that from\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The government communicator stated on Newsfile that, the NDC had always been friends with the police, and that the party was extremely satisfied with the votes they (police) gave the NDC during the last general elections \u201cbut this case, from what we know, the police service say that one, the roadblock was not authorized\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This assertion attracted the attention of the other panelists on the programme but Akyena Bretuo insisted \u201cYes, find out from their PRO, they say their preliminary checks indicate that the roadblock was not authorized. Two: They also believed that the point they were doing the roadblock itself was dangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Prodded by the host (Sampson Lardy Ayenini) to tell Ghanaians where he had his information from, he repeated \u201ccheck with the police\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that Kobby Acheampong told Joy News the policemen were conducting the operation at an inappropriate location and when he decided to advise them he was insulted by one of them.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4736c4847225_515261.jpg.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><span>\u201cThe police had mounted the traffic stop right in the valley and the other side is also a hill. So when I got there I stopped; in fact they stopped me because I overtook the car that was in front of me. And they stopped me. So I stopped and I said why are you guys doing this speed check in this valley?<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Rather [I told them] to move to a flat stretch of the road where they can see you so that even if you have to break it\u2019s a flat stretch and it would not inconvenience anybody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026All the response he did was to tell me that I was a stupid man to tell him that,\u201d the Minister narrated, adding, \u201cso I pulled up and called the IGP\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the men were not supposed to be there in the first place and were using an obsolete radar gun. When asked how he knew the gun was not working, the deputy minister explained \u201cthe speed limit they show to you is the same they show to everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He denied interfering in the affairs of the police, saying he had oversight responsibility over the police.<\/p>\n<p>The men, who were on an operation to check road traffic offences accused the deputy minister of driving above speed limits and directed him to pull over- an allegation the deputy minister denied but conceded he overtook one vehicle in front of him.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A claim by Benjamin Akyena Brentuo, a member of the ruling party\u2019s Communication Team on Joy Fm\u2019s flagship programme, Newsfile, last Saturday, that per a supposed police preliminary investigations, the checkpoint at Mankessim in the Central Region, where the Deputy Minister of Interior, Kobby Acheampong had altercation with the police was unauthorized, and was also at a dangerous place has been refuted as pathetic lies by the police service. Acting Public Relations Director of the Police Service, DSP Cephas Arthur, told this paper in a telephone interview yesterday that, \u201c\u2026I don\u2019t know where he had his information from but ideally, the police wouldn\u2019t divulge any part of investigation when investigation is still in progress, so I don\u2019t know where he got it from and so I will not be able to confirm it or otherwise\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Stupid Minister\u2019 Blues...Gov&#039;t Communicator Stripped Naked! - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/10\/12\/stupid-minister-blues-govt-communicator-stripped-naked\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u2018Stupid Minister\u2019 Blues...Gov&#039;t Communicator Stripped Naked! - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A claim by Benjamin Akyena Brentuo, a member of the ruling party\u2019s Communication Team on Joy Fm\u2019s flagship programme, Newsfile, last Saturday, that per a supposed police preliminary investigations, the checkpoint at Mankessim in the Central Region, where the Deputy Minister of Interior, Kobby Acheampong had altercation with the police was unauthorized, and was also at a dangerous place has been refuted as pathetic lies by the police service. 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