Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons, has reacted to the reported indictment of embattled Member of Parliament for Asante Akyem North, Ohene Kwame Frimpong, popularly known as OK Frimpong, saying what interests him most is the pace of the MP’s rise and how closely it aligns with the chronology of the alleged scams outlined in the indictment.
In a social media post on September 23, 2026, Bright Simons acknowledged that the Asante Akyem North MP is innocent until proven guilty but expressed concern about what he described as Ghana’s growing exposure to fraudulent activities.
“Yes, the MP for Asante Akyem North is innocent until proven guilty. At the same time, his story is a total indictment of the Ghana that elites have built!
The whole country is on the verge of becoming a scam-factory,” he wrote.
The Vice President of IMANI Africa then took readers through some of the key events surrounding OK Frimpong’s arrest in Amsterdam and the chronology that followed.
“Let's walk through some of the highlights. The MP was grabbed off a KLM flight on 10th May by Dutch Police on an American warrant. Within a week, Parliament had found him a lawyer. The Majority Chief Whip nevertheless complained about lack of transparency on the part of the Dutch authorities.
"Which suggests that local intelligence and law enforcement had zero awareness. ZERO,” he noted.
The comments come after details contained in US court documents emerged regarding an 18-count indictment against the Ghanaian lawmaker.
The indictment reportedly contains 15 counts of money laundering and bank fraud and three counts of wire fraud, involving six alleged victims and transfers running into millions of dollars.
The allegations include individual transfers of as much as $550,000, with some of the alleged transactions occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Now we have the filla. Court records reported this week describe an 18-count indictment in the United States: 15 counts of money laundering and bank fraud, 3 of wire fraud, 6 alleged victims, and single transfers as large as $550,000, many during the pandemic. The amounts in question run to millions of dollars. Like I said, a court is yet to pronounce,” he noted.
Court document details how MP OK Frimpong allegedly moved millions from romance scams
According to Simons, however, the issue that interests him most is not simply the allegations contained in the indictment but the timing of OK Frimpong’s rise and how it appears to correspond with the period in which the alleged fraudulent transactions took place.
“What interests me, however, is the pace of this MP's rise and how it aligns so closely with the chronology of scams in the indictment,” he noted.
Simons pointed to January 2020, when OK Frimpong opened Salt 95.9 FM in Agogo, saying the development coincided with the period in which the MP was alleged to have defrauded one of the victims of more than $500,000.
“In January 2020 he opened Salt 95.9 FM in Agogo, with two of Ghana’s best-known broadcasters at the launch. That is the same year that he is alleged to have defrauded a victim of $515,000 using the bank account of his parents' broke restaurant in Chicago,” he wrote.
He further pointed to events in 2021, when OK Frimpong reportedly made significant donations, including cash to widows and a contribution to the National Chief Imam.
“A month later, he handed the National Chief Imam $4,000 and GH¢10,000, explaining that he had ‘succeeded after travelling outside.’ By 2021 profiles said he gave cash to more than 2,000 widows a year,” Simons indicated.
He said OK Frimpong subsequently received several awards and attracted media attention over the businesses he had reportedly established after returning from the United States.
“Then came the awards, half a dozen in about a year. A whole bevy of news sites and bloggers published with gusto about how he had assembled a business empire within the few years since he returned from the US: Wealthbridge Limited, Smart Group, Real Estate, etc.”
Simons also referenced the construction of a 3,000-capacity mosque in Agogo, which was commissioned in January 2024 by the paramount chief of the area.
According to him, OK Frimpong used the occasion to announce his intention to contest the parliamentary election.
“In January 2024, the paramount chief of Agogo commissioned a 3,000-capacity mosque the MP had built, and he used the occasion to announce his run for Parliament,” he indicated.
He further cited OK Frimpong’s claim that he had single-handedly financed rapper Medikal’s sold-out concert at the O2 Indigo in London in May 2024.
“He later said he had ‘singlehandedly’ funded Medikal’s sold-out night at the O2 Indigo in London in May 2024,” Simons wrote.
According to Simons, these various acts of spending and public philanthropy occurred during the same periods identified in the indictment as the years in which large transfers allegedly linked to romance scams were made into accounts controlled by the MP.
“Every single one of those spending acts line up with the exact years the indictment mention as when the big romance scam transfers were made into various accounts he controlled,” Bright Simons said.
He then turned his attention to the 2024 parliamentary election and the circumstances surrounding OK Frimpong’s decision to contest the seat as an independent candidate after losing out in the New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary primary.
According to Simons, while the NPP held its primary in Asante Akyem North in February 2024, OK Frimpong pursued a different route by going directly to the electorate ahead of the December general election.
“In February 2024 the NPP held its primary in Asante Akyem North, a stronghold once dominated by a finance minister. The incumbent won, amid widespread allegations of vote-buying by various contestants. The indicted MP ignored that market. He went straight to the 38,000 people who would vote in December, with a mosque, a clinic, cash for widows and a radio station staffed by his hype-men.
It was a landslide! 70.3% as an independent.”
OK Frimpong eventually contested the 2024 general election as an independent candidate and won the Asante Akyem North parliamentary seat.
Simons further commented on the MP’s conduct after entering Parliament, particularly his decision to sit with the governing party despite having contested the election as an independent candidate.
“In parliament, he went straight for the ruling party benches. How else to get close to power?” he wrote.
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I shouldn't normally write such a piece on a matter that has yet to travel its full way in court. Yes, the MP for Asante Akyem North is innocent until proven guilty. At the same time, his story is a total indictment of the Ghana that elites have built! The whole country is on… pic.twitter.com/GrOGe1a12w
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