Former Minister for Food and Agriculture, , has denied being complicit in the diversion of some rice and fertilizers procured by the government.

According to the Member of Parliament for Abetifi, the allegation made by the Deputy General Secretary of the , Mustapha Gbande, is not factual. "There is no iota of truth in there.

Me, , there are certain things you cannot accuse me of doing, and an example is to claim that I don't have the resources to buy rice to share with my constituents and will resort to stealing the government's rice and fertilizer for my constituency.

That is a blatant lie," he told Kwame Nkrumah Tikese of Okay FM in an interview.