Member of Parliament (MP) for the Nhyiaeso constituency in the Ashanti Region, has passed a comment amidst the raging paternity fraud case against Samuel Aboagye, one of the 8 prominent Ghanaians who lost their lives through the August 6 helicopter crash near Obuasi.
According to Dr Stephen Amoah, popularly known as Stika, the mere fact that a man sleeps with a woman and she gets pregnant, and marries her does not mean that the pregnancy is automatically his.
In the opinion of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), there must be a proof because there may be another man in the picture that the husband is unaware of and may have been the one responsible for the pregnancy and not the supposed husband.
To clear every doubt, he advocates for a DNA test to confirm or otherwise.
“Somebody can impregnate another person—-If you marry the person, the person gives birth, it doesn’t mean the person is your child. Hundred percent—-You need that thing to check”, he said in an interview on the sidelines of the 2026 budget reading in Parliament.
The former deputy minister for Finance has become a person of interest after his name came up as the man rumoured to have fathered the child previously known to belong to Aboagye.
He is one of a few NPP MPs in the Kumasi enclave who have been labelled as having had an amorous relation with Salami while married to Aboagye, who happens to be the deputy Director General of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for Obuasi East in the 2024 general election.
Abigail Salami Aboagye, the widow of the deceased, is said to have been in a relationship with the MP from the Adansi enclave. Reportedly, the deceased suspected his wife and so doubted he Aboagye fathered the child and wanted to do a test.
Earlier, The New Republic approached the MP, seeking to know his side of the allegation but he was unwilling to speak to the matter claiming his reputation was at stake. He told this paper he was not going to react but wants his name to be mentioned publicly so he can take the person on legally.
“My friend, you know this is a serious issue, and as you said it a reputational issue, so somebody should be bold enough so we deal with it in court. It is not an issue that, for example, you say I did it, and I cannot respond to it.
If you can confirm, listen to me please, if you can confirm that, this person has said this, what is your side of the story, that’s fine. But this is a serious issue that I don’t want to respond to any allegation.
Because it’s an issue that, if somebody comes out, then we deal and we talk about it in court. And besides I’ve never spoken to you before, I don’t know the one I’m talking to. You just called me, so respectfully, I think, if you tell me that you have your source, this person, what is my response, fine. No, but I mean this a mere allegation going round it wouldn’t be proper.
No, the way you are talking, my reputation is being injured already, as you are saying. So what I’m saying is, I have to be smart enough to know who it is, because I don’t know anybody who is saying that to me, that Stika has done A B C D. So, as you said, if you are doing that in good faith, I will only respond when somebody comes out and says that, I can say Stika has done this. That’s all, that’s my response to you”.
Where further questions were posed to him he insisted that anyone making claim comes out or he is not going to respond to claims by faceless individuals and dropped the call.
“Listen to me, listen to me. I’m somebody, I’m a very good person. But listen, I’m glad you’re not joking with this things I beg you, it’s my reputation. You have spoken to me, I haven’t said anything, I’m saying that, I want somebody to come public, you said it’s alleged now you are putting something in my mind, through my mouth, I have said anything, I have not said anything. Boss, I’m not ready to comment on this thing now. I want somebody to come public then I take the action that is necessary”, he said.
By Gifty Boateng