Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has alleged that the backlash surrounding his comments about Kwame Nkrumah intensified after individuals carried what he describes as inaccurate accounts of his remarks to influential traditional leaders.

He said the matter reached the attention of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, shortly after the speech was delivered.

“The day after, he called me and said, ‘When are you coming to Kumasi? Because you have been reported to me,” NAPO disclosed while speaking to students at the University of Ghana in a video MyNewsGh sighted.

The former Energy Minister said he later met the Asantehene and offered to provide the original recording of his speech so that the comments could be assessed directly rather than through second-hand accounts.

“I said, ‘Your Majesty, I’ll get you the tape so that you hear exactly what I said,” he recalled.

NAPO claimed that the individual who initially reported him was later questioned about the allegations and struggled to support the claims that had been made.


He further alleged that similar complaints were taken to other respected figures, creating the impression that he had made remarks he never actually uttered.

According to him, the controversy became less about the original speech and more about competing interpretations of what had been said.