The Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, , has shared an experience that, perhaps, was the waking point with regard the magnitude of the job at hand when his own mother called crying to him that she had been scammed.

Speaking in an interview with JoyNews on April 15, 2025, the minister recounted how his mother was scammed by Mobile Money (MoMo) fraudsters who used his name to scam her, moments after his appointment by President .

He said that the fraudsters managed to steal a whopping GH¢24,000 from his mother's MoMo account. "In my poor mother's case, just after I was appointed minister, they called her and said, 'Oh, because of your son, now we want to protect your Mobile Money and so verify your PIN.' I'm telling you, my mother - she's alive. "They stole her GH¢24,000.

And I told her, I said, 'Ah, but when they called you, why didn't you call me to confirm?'" he said.