Manasseh Azure Awuni, an award-winning investigative journalist, has tackled Paul Adom-Otchere, the former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company.
According to Manasseh, he watched Adom Otchere’s Evening Ghana in which he named him.
Manasseh, in a social media letter to Paul Adom Otchere, called out him out for lying to Ghanaians.
The investigative journalist in his post wrote, “ I have watched your special morning edition of ‘Good Evening Ghana’ in which you named me. Even as my investigation into the contract is yet to be published, I wish to draw your attention to a few issues.
You said I had engaged you on this matter, and we had exchanged questions and answers. You also said you had yet to respond to some of the questions I sent you. This is wholly correct. And I’m still waiting for your response to the questions after the several promises and timelines you gave me”.
He added, “In distancing yourself from the contract, you claimed on your show this morning that you didn’t know the owners of the company that won the shady contracts. Paul, this is false. You have admitted to me, not once but TWICE, that you knew the owners of the company from the very beginning.
I HAVE EVIDENCE OF THIS. I also have evidence that a year before that company (the one which eventually won the contract) came to the board meeting you chaired at the GACL, you had met those behind the company. So, Paul, it’s a lie if you claim you didn’t know the owners of the company that won the contract”.
Manasseh added, “You said the contract does not involve paying money to the company. You said the company would only receive a percentage (15%) from any incremental revenue above the GACL benchmark revenue from the sector during the company’s operation. This claim is misleading”.
Manasseh further revealed that his comments are just based on Adom Otchere’s release, in which he named him.
He added that the story itself will reveal why the deal is a scandal and why Addom Otchere, the MD of GACL, and the PPA may need to answer some critical questions.
His comments come on the back of Paul Adom Otchere trying to distance himself.
Speaking on his show, Good Evening show, Adom Otchere narrated, “You don’t have 20 per cent MD drop them to 16 per cent, so it was agreed, and then MD was told that go ahead and do the things you have to do, those are due diligence, public procurement and then get the document done. This was around November.
So, this was the last thing I heard about that process. Then December came, then the election came soon after the election, we were out by January, we had resigned, all of us had resigned”.
According to Adom Otchere, it was Manasseh Azure who informed him that the GACL MD had signed the contract.
He added, “I didn’t know they had signed the contract, some 10 days ago, Manasseh Azure called me that he was investigating this matter, so when the OSP came, all the Lawyers were wondering are they were working together.
Manasseh Azure was one of the people you had been talking about. Kissi Agyebeng is one of the people you have been talking about; they seem to be working together, but I don’t know, and it does not matter.
Manasseh Azure called me and said Who is Eva? What is the Evatest contract? And I said What was that, he said Evatest, the people doing quality assurance, I said The people who do the think SML does he said yes. I said I don’t know about it, I don’t know what it gone to”.
Paul Adom Otchere added, “It was Manasseh Azure who told me that the contract has been signed by the Managing Director on the 4th of December, three days to the election”.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) ordered Paul Adom-Otchere, to present himself for questioning.
According to reports, the OPS has invited Paul Adom Otchere in over a corruption probe into a revenue assurance audit deal.
On July 25, 2025, an official letter named Adom-Otchere as a suspect in its probe.
The probe has to do with an alleged corruption and corruption-related offences arising from a contract between GACL and a private firm.
The OSP has asked Adom Otchere to appear before the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, at the OSP headquarters in Accra today, July 31, 2025.
See the post below:
Dear Paul Adom Otchere,
I have watched your special morning edition of “Good Evening Ghana” in which you named me. Even as my investigation into the contract is yet to be published, I wish to draw your attention to a few issues.
1. You said I had engaged you on this matter, and… pic.twitter.com/uAl0WaH3Cz
— Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure) July 31, 2025
Paul Adom Otchere throws Airport MD Yvonne Opare under bus as he flees from the OSP 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/VplscAkSW2
— Popo🇰🇼🇬🇭 (@Popony_J) July 31, 2025
