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A Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Dr. Ransford Gyampo has warned the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Free Zones Board (GFZB) to desist from attacking his personality and integrity.

Dr. Gyampoh said this while responding to allegations that he claimed during one of his lectures that the Education Minister, Professor Jane Opoku Agyemang leaked questions to President John Mahama during the 2012 Presidential debate organized by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).

According to Kwadwo Twum Boafo, Dr. Gyampoh said during one of his Political Science Lectures that Prof Opoku Agyemang’s appointment to head the Education Ministry was a reward for the act.

“One of their (IEA) researchers, standing in a classroom in Legon, a so-called Political Science Lecturer and telling children that the current Education Minister, Prof Naana Opoku Agyemang…got an appointment as a minister because she had leaked debate questions to President Mahama and that is the height of insult.

“Ransford Gyampoh has the balls to go and stand in a classroom and say she was appointed minister simply because she leaked questions to President Mahama,” the GFZB CEO alleged on Accra-based Radio Gold.

Reacting to this allegation on Adom FM’s Super Weekend News on Saturday, Dr. Gyampoh who is also a senior fellow at the IEA said the allegation was unfounded as according to him, Kwadwo Twum Boafo is not a student of the University and hence never heard the details of his lectures.

He accused Twum Boafo and other politicians of contracting students to act as spies on campuses who feed them with information.

According to him, Twum Boafo and his likes in the NDC are on a mission to intimidate and cow him into submission with their comments.

And this attempt, he said would never wash as he was prepared to go every extent to do the right analysis on political issues.

He said Kwadwo Twum Boafo was just engaging in propaganda to ‘cow him into submission’, a strategy which he said would never wash.

Twum Boafo is just seeking to cow me into submission with some of these baseless claims (but) I don’t care about NDC, I don’t care about NPP…I lecture in Political Science so I have a thick skin to stomach some of these things, it doesn’t shake me up one bit…,” he said.

Dr. Gyampoh further challenged Twum Boafo to come and enroll in the University of Ghana if he seeks to listen to the contents of lectures.

“I lecture in Political Science and know what it takes to rise to be the Vice Chancellor of a University, so how come drag the name of the Education Minister into the mud…I have so much respect for her as a scholar and I won't ever say such a thing to undermine and insult her…,” he said.