Kweku George Ricketts-Hagan, Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South
The Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, Kweku George Ricketts-Hagan, has called for punitive action against the Member of Parliament for Assin South, Rev John Ntim Fordjour, by Parliament, over allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering.
The Deputy Majority Leader explained that the NPP’s legislator’s actions do not only pose a security risk, but betrays the oath of secrecy legislators are made to swear on committees in Parliament.
“I’m on the Committee on Defence and Interior in Parliament. Though, it is my first time on a committee that deals with security matters; I can tell that Ntim Fordjour’s allegations were from the briefing that we received at a meeting,” Ricketts-Hagan said on Pan African TV on April 12, 2025.
The MP for Cape Coast South indicated that his first thought about the briefing by the minister felt like he (the minister) had given too much information.
“In that meeting, we swore an oath. There were a number of things that was said. I sat there for a while and thought that too much information was being given at the committee. But then again, I thought, where else could he share such critical matters of national security, but at the committee.
“The minister at one point said that he knows we’ve all sworn an oath of secrecy,” he narrated to explain how the minister placed some level of trust in them.
However, Ricketts-Hagan noted that the first time he listened to Ntim Fordjour’s press conference, he could tell that he had just picked portions of the briefing from the meeting in question and embellished it.
“I discussed with one person on the committee that just as the minister gave us the information, he (Ntim Fordjour) could have done same,” he added.
The former Deputy Minister of Trade stressed that he could say with all conviction that Ntim Fordjour has no intelligence on the allegations he has made.
“Ntim Fordjour has no intelligence in connection with his allegations; as he has made the public to believe. Being a partisan person who wanted to shine in his space, he picked one or two things from the meeting and embellished it.
“He added some things that do not relate to anything that we were told on the committee; that is why he is at the place where he cannot bring evidence to back his claims. Looking at how he is being chased around by the NIB, he would have brought evidence, if he had any,” he added.
He lamented that Ntim Fordjour has succeeded in diverting the attention of security operatives from genuine ongoing crimes and breached an oath of secrecy; hence must be punished.
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