{"id":446480,"date":"2017-12-13T01:21:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ive-not-called-utv-to-stop-owusu-bempah-perry-okudzeto\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T01:21:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T01:21:29","slug":"ive-not-called-utv-to-stop-owusu-bempah-perry-okudzeto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/ive-not-called-utv-to-stop-owusu-bempah-perry-okudzeto\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve not called UTV to stop Owusu Bempah &#8211; Perry Okudzeto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/55166418.295.jpg\" alt=\"Perry Okudzeto1\" title=\"Perry Okudzeto1\" width=\"295\" height=\"223\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Curtis Perry Kwabla Okudzeto, Deputy Minister for Information<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513128089_937_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Deputy Minister for Information, Curtis Perry Kwabla Okudzeto has denied calling media UTV to henceforth stop granting audience to Ernest Owusu Bempah.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, some faceless persons believed to be members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are claiming he called UTV to direct that Owusu Bempah who is also the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Ghana Gas should not be allowed on their political programmes any longer.<\/p>\n<p>A message circulating on  social media  stated:\u201d Following the humiliation suffered by Ernest Owusu Bempah in the hands of Sammy Gyamfi last night on UTV, deputy minister for information Mr. Perry Okudjeto has called UTV this morning not to host Owusu Bempah anymore in the name of the NPP government.<\/p>\n<p>According to our sources at UTV Perry was very upset about last night\u2019s development and said \u201cOwusu Bempah is not a member of the NPP, he got his appointment because of Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings\u2019s closeness to the President\u201d, after that he dropped the call\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Deputy Minister in response said:\u201dIt has come to my notice that some unscrupulous elements in the opposition have either manufactured an interview or have very fertile imagination.<\/p>\n<p>On this issue of a programme on UTV that featured Ernest Owusu Bempah and an opposition activist, I did not watch the said programme until my attention was drawn to it a while ago, and could therefore not have placed a call to the media house for whatever purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The media house can confirm this. 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