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Former Employees of Busyinternet Ghana Ltd, Andy Ankomah and Nicolas Bill Aleander, chief conspirators of fabrications and malicious lies against former Minister for Education and current Minister for Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as "Napo", have apologized to him.

The defamers, in a letter dated 20th June, 2023, apologized for maligning the Minister through series of publications on social media that the Minister had engaged in bribery and corruption in the process of awarding a contract to Busyinternet Ghana Limited during his time as Education Minister.

This comes on the back of the two admitting to hiding behind the company’s official social media handles to allege wrongdoing against Dr. Prempeh concerning the award of the said contract to company in 2019.  

According to them, they falsely believed that once they mentioned the names of responsible public officials like the Minister who was involved in the contract; their management, against whom they have been pressing payment demands, would panic and pay their outstanding salaries.   

In the letter signed by the two employees, they state among others that their allegations against the Minister were not backed by facts but were only sordid attempts at getting their unpaid salaries paid.

“These were based on suspicions and not enough to consider the publication as 100% accurate”, they said.

The letter continued; “Hon. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, former Education Minister was mentioned which was regrettable and as such it’s proper we offer an unqualified apology. We would also like to offer an apology to the Ministry of Education since the institution was mentioned in the publication and never meant to cause harm to their reputation.”

The duo said their approach was not politically motivated but only to compel their management to heed their demands to pay their outstanding salaries, thus, to them, resorting to this irresponsible act of drawing an innocent public official into their staff-management impasse was their only option.

They however called on the Minister to intervene in their salary payment matter by speaking on their behalf to their management.

“Our emotions got the better of us in addressing the issue and will plead to your honourable office to broker a deal on our behalf to get our arrears paid.”

They further appealed to Hon. Matthew Opoku Prempeh to grant them an audience for to render their apology in person, adding they have pulled down their malicious posts on social media.