Following claims on social media that Dr. Kwame Addo-Kuffour is the 3rd richest person in Ghana, the NPP leading member has debunked the said news.
This response from the former Minister under former President Kuffour’s administration follows a claim by an anonymous individual on TikTok alleging that Dr. Addo-Kufuor has a net worth of US$1.2 billion making him the third richest person in Ghana
But the NPP stalwart in a statement through his lawyers has vehemently denied the claims.
According to the statement released by Dr. Addo Kuffuour’s lawyers, Zoe, Akyea & Co. Legal Practitioners & Notaries Public, the claims are unfounded adding that it’s calculated to dent the ‘hard-earned integrity of Dr Kufuor’.
The lawyers stated that “we have the firm and unqualified instructions of our client to state in no uncertain terms that he has no such levels of money and will exact the strictest proof of this vain allegation from the individual who is conveniently enjoying anonymity”.
His lawyers maintained that the former Board Chairman of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) acquired his money through legitimate means. They threatened to issue a defamatory suit after the perpetrators have been fished out fish.
“We have further instructions to fish out those behind this disdainful practice of character assassination with the view to taking them on in a defamatory suit in a court of competent jurisdiction”.
Read the full statement below:
ZOE, AKYEA & CO.
22 September 2023
10 RICHEST MEN IN GHANA AS BROADCASTED ON TIKTOK-THE VILE AND FOUL MISINFORMATION CALCULATED TO DENT THE IMAGE OF HONOURABLE DR KWAME ADDO-KUFUOR
We act as lawyers for Honourable Dr. Kwame Addo-Kufuor who has instructed us to respond to the rather vile and foul misinformation currently trending on TikTok calculated to dent our client’s hard-earned integrity
The coward behind this shameful act of sleazy propaganda has not been bold enough to furnish his name nor is there a scintilla of evidence to back these watery effusions about our client.
The unknown voice painfully alleges that our client is the third-richest man in Ghana with a net worth of US$1.2 billion. He insinuates that our client’s level of money are invested in banking, farming, media and mining.
We have the firm and unqualified instructions of our client to state in no uncertain terms that he has no such levels of money and will exact the strictest proof of this vain allegation from the individual who is conveniently enjoying anonymity.
The record of our client is well-known. He has been a successful physician who even lectured medicine in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
His political life has been exemplary, He was a Member of Parliament for Manhyia from 1997 to 2009. In President Kufuor’s government, he was the Defence Minister and for some time was burdened with the additional responsibility of the Ministry of Interior. During the first term of President Akufo-Addo, our client was made the Board Chairman of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).
His assets declaration is not a fetish but duly lodged with the Auditor-General
We have further instructions to fish out those behind this disdainful practice of character assassination with the view to taking them on in a defamatory suit in a court of competent jurisdiction.
Yours faithfully,
Samuel Atta Akyea
Zoe, Akyea Co
