Prominent New Patriotic Party communicator and former CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, has taken a pointed swipe at National Democratic Congress communicator and presidential staffer Beatrice Annan — capping off a bruising political episode with one of the sharpest words in the Akan vocabulary.
“I guess you have gotten whatever you wanted from me now. Bayifoɔ!” Nkansah wrote on his Facebook page, using the Twi word for “witch” — a term loaded with cultural weight in Ghana, implying malice, wickedness, and a calculated desire to cause harm.
The post came on the back of a turbulent stretch for the former NEIP boss, who found himself in the crosshairs of the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) in early February 2026 over claims he had made about the alleged sale of government scholarships.
Nkansah had alleged that individuals — reportedly including some NPP members — were paying upwards of GH¢100,000 to secure overseas scholarship slots, a claim that drew significant public attention and, it appears, official scrutiny.
He showed up voluntarily for questioning alongside his lawyer, but what followed was anything but routine. Nkansah was reportedly detained, and his residence searched — a turn of events that triggered swift and furious condemnation from the NPP and the Minority in Parliament, who characterised the whole exercise as political harassment and a blatant abuse of state power by the sitting NDC administration.
He was subsequently released on bail, but the NPP did not let the matter rest. Several voices within the party pointed fingers directly at Beatrice Annan, accusing the presidential staffer and NDC communicator of being the force behind triggering or amplifying the investigation. Nkansah himself appeared to double down on that accusation in his Facebook post, alleging that Annan had deployed state institutions to “harass” him — all because he had repeatedly tagged her on social media, prompting her to block him.
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From the NDC’s vantage point, the NIB probe was a legitimate response to serious allegations of corruption involving publicly funded scholarships — the kind of graft that deserves investigation regardless of who raises it or who it implicates. Annan, as both a government staffer and a frontline party communicator, occupies a role that naturally puts her at odds with critics like Nkansah.
But the NPP’s reading is starkly different. For them, this episode fits a well-worn pattern of incumbent governments — regardless of party — turning the machinery of state against opposition figures who dare to speak out. Nkansah has positioned himself squarely as a victim of that machinery.
The irony, of course, is that neither side (the NPP or the NDC) is a stranger to these accusations. Ghana’s political history is littered with nearly identical complaints from both the NPP and the NDC — each one louder when they are out of power, the other quieter when they are in it. As the dust settles on this latest flare-up, one thing is certain: the political temperature in Ghana shows no signs of cooling.