Mr. Asamoah’s threat follows alleged defamatory comments made against him by a morning show host of the radio station.

The host, Samuel Acheampong, allegedly claimed that Mr. Asamoah received financial support and resources from the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament, Andy Appiah Kubi, to fund his campaign.

However, Mr. Asamoah, in an interview on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem, refuted the claim, stating that all attempts to demand an apology and retraction have proven futile.

“If he thought it was a news item, they should have reached out to me. I even called into the show, but my call was hung up while I was expressing my grievances,” he said.

With the radio station within walking distance of his house, he decided to go there and engage management, but he was denied entry, leading to an altercation.

He accused the owner of Salt FM, Ohene Kwame Frimpong, who is contesting the parliamentary race as an independent candidate, of fueling attacks on him and using the platform to tarnish his image.

He asserted that the allegation has negatively impacted his reputation, hence his demand for an apology and retraction.

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Mr. Asamoah, who is the Asante Akim North PC, was at the station to demand a retraction and apology over an alleged defamatory statement.

The host of the morning show, Anopa Busuo, Samuel Acheampong, alleged that Mr. Asamoah had received financial support and resources from the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament to fund his campaign.

The comments sparked concern among NDC supporters, who informed the PC.

After he was unsuccessful in addressing the issue during a call-in segment, Mr. Asamoah stormed the station in the company of some NDC supporters.

An attempt to deny him access into the studio resulted in a fierce confrontation, although no injuries were recorded.

A video shared on X by Accra-based Citi FM captured the moment of the altercation.

An altercation reportedly broke out Thursday morning when the NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Asante Akim North, Kofi Asamoah, confronted Agogo-based Salt FM, demanding an apology and retraction over claims that he had received financial and other support from the incumbent NPP… pic.twitter.com/ldV1NW05fT

— CITI FM 97.3 (@Citi973) November 7, 2024

The station management has since filed an official complaint with the police.

However, the NDC PC has dismissed allegations that he went to the station with thugs or weapons and has threatened to pursue legal action against Salt FM.

He also accused the station’s owner, who is an independent parliamentary candidate in the constituency, of using the platform to tarnish his image.

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According to him, the government has opened many places of work and worship and can’t continue to keep churches closed.

“I really think that it is long overdue because you see if we are able to have 275 of them sit in parliament, and say that they are able to follow covid protocols, and there is no cause for alarm or whatsoever, we should be able to do same for the cinema.”

He added that, unlike parliament, people do not have to talk in cinemas, adding the people will also easily follow the Covid protocols including the wearing of masks.

“In the cinema, you clap, you laugh, you cry, you are out, it is that simple. It is possible to be in a cinema and watch an entire film with a nose mask on.”

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The filmmaker added that if government trusts children to go to school daily and adhere to the Covid protocols, they can trust adults will do exactly that when they visit the cinemas.

“The cinema is an enclosed space but how many of the churches we have in this country are in open-air spaces? But they are all working graciously and adhering to protocols,

“So if bankers can work and people from all walks of life can go to the banks wear their nose maks do their transactions and leave why can’t they walk into the cinema watch the movie and leave.

“Cinema is even a place where the crowd can be controlled. If you enter it is strictly by ticketing. It is a highly controlled environment,” the CEO of Kofas Media said.

Kofi Asamoah during a live interview on GHOne TV, was very categorical that he had the permission of Tim Greene, a Johannesburg film director, to produce a duplication of the latter’s film, ‘Skeem’, but Tim Greene has insisted he has never given such permission to the Ghanaian producer.

“A Ghanaian journalist looked me up on Facebook to ask if I knew about the movie ‘John & John’. The director had been going around saying I had given permission for the ‘adaptation’. I hadn’t and, of course, it was a real surprise. Really, quite a huge surprise. Like, the most surprising single thing that’s happened to me,” Tim Greene said in a news report put out by Channel 24.

Hitherto, Kofi Asamoah had been basking in glory and hopping from one media house to another bragging that his movie, ‘John & John’, is one of the best things that ever happened to the Ghanaian movie sector.

The movie, a well-produced one, indeed, received great reviews and was well embraced.

Even when movie pundits drew Kofi Asamoah’s attention to the fact that ‘John & John’ could be an infringement on ‘Skeem’ and there could be copyright challenges, the Ghanaian producer insisted he has met the producer of ‘Skeem’ at a film festival in South Africa after which they spoke and agreed for the adaptation to be done.

In a rather embarrassing twist, this was what Tim Greene told Channel 24:

“I haven’t seen the whole thing, but extrapolating from the trailer, it’s a wholesale rip-off. The characters, the situation, events and – line for line – the dialogue….it’s basically a full jack.”

Tim Greene said he would not seek court redress over the matter and that his team and that of Kofi Asamoah were now talking about how to straighten the wrong.

“We’re engaged in conversations right now about making things right. We’re asking them to retroactively purchase the remake rights. They’ve agreed, but we haven’t received any payments yet.”

When Tim Greene was asked if he would have granted permit for a remake of ‘Skeem’ had Kofi Asamoah approached him, he responded in the affirmative.

“Yes, without a doubt. In fact, we would have considered it a great honour. There is nothing more flattering than another film maker saying they like your work so much that they want to invest their own blood, sweat and tears into making their own version of it.

“I’m fascinated and endlessly entertained by the whole thing. And weirdly flattered. I mean, they did a bad thing, but no one died. Life goes on. Hopefully, it will all turn out well in the end. I like it that my little movie is having a surreal little afterlife,” Tim Greene explained.