The Oti Regional Minister, Joshua Makubo, last Friday openly attacked the Multimedia Group Ltd at Nkwanta in the Oti Region, as he chastised the Catholic Church for inviting the media house to cover its event.
He accused Multimedia group, owners of Joy FM, Adom FM, Joy TV and several other platforms of making a false reportage about the death of the Krachi East District Chief Executive [DCE], Francis Kofi Okesu, who died in a hotel in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, with sperm found on him.
The Regional Minister, who stepped in for Minerals Commission CEO, Benjamin Ayisi as chairman at the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the St Joseph Hospital Nkwanta, said if he knew that Multimedia had been invited to cover the event, he would have declined the Hospital’s invitation to chair its celebration.
“Reverend Bishop Mantey, if I knew Multimedia Limited was one of the media houses invited to cover this programme, I would not have honored the invitation to come and chair this occasion”, he stated.
“Multimedia has made an uneducated reportage for which they are to render an apology which they failed to do”, the Minister further said, with his gaze disrespectfully fixed on Bishop Gabriel Mantey.
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The remarks and unwarranted attack, marred the beauty of the beautiful celebration and changed the looks on the faces of Bishop Mantey, the hardworking Catholic Sisters and workers, whose toils transformed the otherwise unknown clinic into one of the five biggest Christian Health Association of Ghana [CHAG] Hospitals in Ghana and globally.
In between the Regional Minister’s attack, the Multimedia team was spotted with their equipment in a far distance from the media spot, without capturing the Minister’s address.
When Multimedia’s Oti Regional correspondent, Peter Senu was contacted by The Herald, he said the Regional Minister, had complained about the part of Joynews and that of Daily Guide newspaper news report that sperm were found on the thighs of the Krachi East DCE who died in a hotel in Kumasi.
The Regional Minister, has since been demanding a retraction and apology from Multimedia, although according to Joynews’ correspondent, what Multimedia reported was from a Police extract and not Joynew’s own creation.
The Regional Minister, is said to have first complained about the reports by the two houses in the presence of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, during the inauguration of the Hohoe-Jasikan -Dodo Pepesu stretch of the Eastern Corridor Roads.
But a simple check made online about the Francis Kofi Okesu’s story, showed that almost all the major media houses, including Graphic online reported on the sperm found on the former DCE’s thighs.
It is obvious the Regional Minister, Mr Makubo is gaining notoriety for negativity in the Oti Region.
He is on record to have spent taxpayers’ money to fuel his taxpayers’ acquired V8 to be chauffeured from Dambai to Nkwanta to personally supervise an exercise to uproot and destroy countless number of trees planted by the National Democratic Congress [NDC].
The party planted the trees to commemorate its 30th anniversary, as part of the effort of the opposition party to restore the country’s depleted forest cover.
Mr Senu, also revealed that shortly after the event by the Catholic Church at Nkwanta, he met with the Regional Minister, who warned him not to attend the funeral of the Krachi East DCE, Francis Kofi Okesu, saying he could be fished out even if he sneaks to the funeral, implying he could be harmed.
The Joy FM reporter told The Herald that the Regional Minister overtime, appears to have forgiven the Daily Guide newspaper, as he no longer talks about their reportage.
However, he has not done so with the Multimedia group, although the story has since been pulled down by the media, due to the hurt it might have caused the bereaved family, regardless of the fact that the bit about the sperm was captured in the police report.
