The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr Frank Amoakohene, has criticized the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), Alex King Nartey, for his criticism of him.
In a Facebook post on March 22, 2025, Dr Amoakohene shared an old post dated April 1, 2015, which featured the name and image of the GNFS PRO, believed to have been made by him.
The post included a series of wishes by Alex King Nartey on April 1, 2015, a day celebrated as April Fools’ Day, where people often engage in pranks and hoaxes.
Among the wishes was a vote of no confidence in President John Dramani Mahama and the ECG to announce an end to power outages locally known as dumsor.
In his post, he also wished an end to ‘massive corruption’ in the country and the arrest and prosecution of corrupt government officials who caused financial loss to the state.
However, upon sighting the post, Dr. Amoakohene harshly criticised Alex King Nartey, accusing him of being a politician rather than a serviceman, referencing the post that was purportedly made by him.
“Bro talked about social media without knowing the power of it. He’s a politician, not a serviceman,” he posted.
This latest development follows an ongoing feud between the Ashanti Regional Minister and the GNFS, triggered by a devastating fire outbreak at the Central Market in Adum, Kumasi which destroyed several shops and caused significant property damage.
Alex King Nartey called out Dr. Frank Amoakohene over what he describes as an attempt to engage in self-aggrandizement at the expense of hardworking firefighters.
Reacting to a viral video from the scene of the Adum Market fire, where Dr. Amoakohene was captured calling out firefighters for failing to show enthusiasm in fighting the blaze, King Nartey questioned the motivation behind the minister’s actions while noting their impact on the morale of the officers.
“He could have easily just approached any of our officers or the commander at the scene without having to necessarily put a camera on himself to create a spectacle. To what end?
“Because at Kantamanto, there was no shouting, but we were able to quench the fire. So what was the essence of the shouting with the cameras there, just to create a scene that you are working? When the men who are actually working and putting their lives on the line were being demoralised, who does that?” he told TV3 in an interview.
Alex King Nartey accused the minister of seeking to embarrass the officers for social media trends and implored him to instead familiarize himself with the operations of firefighters.
“Don’t be quick to embarrass the hardworking firefighters for social media trends and attention without familiarizing yourself with our operations,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
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