Gomoa Central MP Kwame Asare Obeng, widely known as A Plus, has rejected allegations that he was paid to manipulate media coverage of a scandal involving officials of the National Service Secretariat.
Speaking on KSM’s Unfiltered monitored by MyNewsGh, A Plus said his role was limited to facilitating a platform for affected parties to present their side of the story after a court injunction temporarily restrained the airing of an investigative report by The Fourth Estate.
“There was a court that placed an injunction on the report,” he said. “Once a judge says don’t air it, and the other side says they want to be heard, it is only right to let people tell their side of the story.”
Addressing claims that he was paid to “kill” the story or influence the narrative, the MP dismissed the suggestion as unrealistic in today’s media environment. “How is it possible to control all the people on TikTok, Facebook and YouTube?” he asked. “Anybody who thinks someone can spin news and change the entire narrative does not understand the time we’re in.”
A Plus argued that media power is now decentralised and no single individual can dictate public discourse. “To think you can decide what KSM will say or what Joy FM will say is not how media works anymore,” he stated.
He maintained that allowing parties to explain themselves does not amount to suppressing investigative journalism. “Later, all the allegations came out anyway,” he added. “So clearly, nobody killed any story.”
