ZOOMLION CEO BRIBED ME TO STOP MY ‘DECENTRALIZE WASTE MANAGEMENT’ CAMPAIGN — A Plus

Member of Parliament for Gomoa Central, Kwame Asare Obeng, known popularly as A Plus, has admitted to taking bribes from Zoomlion’s CEO to end his campaign on the need to decentralise waste management.

He stated that Paul Adom Otchere attacked his personality on national television, and therefore, to pay him back, he had to attack his boss, who owns Metro TV and Zoomlion.

According to A Plus, he then started a campaign on social media about the need for waste management to be decentralised, which prompted the intervention of Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong, the owner of Zoomlion, to contact him.

Speaking in an interview on Channel 1 television, he noted that he was then paid huge sums of money to end the campaign, which put Zoomlion in a bad light.

He said, “So, this man takes my photo, puts it on TV, saying, ‘A Plus, you have gone to take GH₵250,000…’ He said a lot, and this money he is talking about—you say you are NPP, and the money is being given to parliamentarians, so why are you not talking about the NPP parliamentarians? Okay, so A Plus will not say anything. I have grown, but I am a very bad guy. When he did that, I didn’t respond; I just left him. Then on Monday, I started ‘Waste Management Must Be Decentralised’ because Zoomlion owns Metro TV. So, if you use Metro TV to do that, Paul, you don’t have anything of value that I will attack apart from your wife”.

He added, “I started ‘Waste Management Must Be Decentralised’ because I wanted to attack his boss, Zoomlion, and I spent time on it. You see where all the Youth Employment issues are heading? Yes, I will have time. I will deal with you. His boss called me; Zoomlion called me so many times, but I wasn’t picking up his calls. Everyone in this country was calling me, saying Zoomlion wants to talk to you, but I wasn’t picking up. Paul, ask your boss what happened when he met me. I won’t sue you for defamation. Have you noticed I stopped the waste management campaign? Because his boss paid me for his misbehavior on Metro TV.”