A leading member of the Movement For Change, Solomon Owusu, has criticised the Member of Parliament for Assin South, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, for peddling falsehoods in his allegations regarding two suspicious flights that landed at Kotoka International Airport in March and departed for Gran Canaria, Spain, on March 25.

In a press conference, the MP said he suspected that the flights—an air ambulance and a private jet—may have been involved in drug trafficking or money laundering.

The lawmaker, who is also the Minority's Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee, had earlier claimed that one of the aircraft, Air MED flight L823 AM, landed in Ghana on March 20 and remained for five days without any record of transporting a patient.

This allegation prompted President John Mahama to order security agencies to “immediately and fully collaborate with the honourable Member of Parliament so he provides all necessary information to investigate the allegations and take all action necessary to expose any drug dealing.”

However, commenting on the issue during a panel discussion on TV3 monitored by GhanaWeb, Solomon Owusu condemned the conduct of the legislator, adding that the latter only engaged in what he described as “secondary school politics.”

“When I listened to him, I realised that he was doing secondary school politics. He was asked if he had evidence that there was cocaine, and he said no, but that he believed National Security should be able to tell us. If you know National Security has to tell us, then why come out to make such claims? You don’t have any information. This business of bringing university and secondary school politics into Parliament must cease.

"The party wants to quickly latch onto something so that it becomes topical. That is what the NPP has been reduced to. You are a Member of Parliament representing the people of Assin South. Any statement you make must reflect the ideals, views, and principles of the people of Assin South. You don’t just come and lie and then tell us to investigate. He lied—just like the last time National Security lied about monies allegedly found at Sarpeiman.”

Solomon Owusu further stated that political parties need to take a second look at their representatives in Parliament.

“They should stop these things. Political parties should be serious in evaluating the people that represent them. You cannot just throw something into the public space for us to discuss aimlessly. It is needless, a total fabrication, and there is no iota of truth in it. Otherwise, he himself would have provided evidence. How many kilograms were in the flight? How much money was on board? Was it in pounds, euros? All these details were not provided. He just came to throw something out there, and unfortunately, it was April Fool’s Day. He could have easily hidden behind that and claimed it was a joke.”