Member of Parliament for Abetifi and Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, has been revealed as the driving force behind the campaign by several New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs to remove Ken Ofori-Atta from his position as Minister of Finance.
In 2022, Ken Ofori-Atta faced significant criticism from a group of NPP lawmakers, who called for his dismissal.
Over 90 MPs believed that Ofori-Atta had mismanaged the country’s economy, leading to widespread hardships for Ghanaians, and therefore, demanded his ousting.
At the time, Andy Appiah Kubi, the Asante Akim North MP who served as the group’s spokesperson, was perceived as the mastermind behind the movement.
However, it has now come to light that the true orchestrator was Bryan Acheampong. This revelation was made by renowned investigative journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni during an interview on Metro TV on Thursday, August 8, 2024, as he discussed his forthcoming book on the Akufo-Addo administration.
“There was the ‘Ken-must-go’ campaign. At the time, someone told me that Bryan Acheampong was behind it. When I was writing the book, I realized that I needed to capture it because it was a major event in the Akufo-Addo administration,” Manasseh explained on Good Morning Ghana.
Manasseh recounted his conversation with Acheampong: “I went to Bryan Acheampong and said, ‘I’m told you were behind the Ken-must-go rebellion,’ and he said, ‘If anybody said I was behind that, it is not accurate; I was actually in front of it.’”