Intentional or Accidental?: Watch video of NPP national executives pushing off microphone of media house

In the said video, the General Secretary of the NPP, Justin Frimpong Kodua, and the party’s 3rd Vice Chairman, Masawud Osman, appeared to have pushed down the microphone of Accra-based TV3.

The manner in which the incident happened, and the existing feud between the leadership of the NPP and Media General, the mother body of TV3, with the party putting an embargo on the media house, has led to a faction of the public saying that the NPP executives deliberately threw down the microphone.

But was the incident deliberate or not?

Here is a sequence of events from the video:

The video showed Justin Kodua concluding his remarks at the presser.

The General Secretary, who appeared to have forgotten about giving the Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the chance to address the conference, said, “Ei, the mighty Minority Leader must also say something. He cannot say it is okay.”

Before he could give Afenyo-Markin the opportunity to speak, Justin Kodua was prompted by one of the executives who was standing behind him to interpret what he said in Twi.

The General Secretary and the NPP 3rd Vice Chairman from there was then seen looking at the microphones of the media houses in front of them.

Both of them reached out for the TV3 microphone, but the vice chairman’s hand pushed it to the ground.

The incident led to murmurs at the conference room, but the executive who told Justin Kodua to interpret in the Twi dialect said, “I think he was pushing it back, but it fell.”

Justin Kodua then asked that the microphone be placed back onto the table.

Watch the video below: