Frances Essiam and Raymond Archer, Editor-in-Chief of the Enquirer newspaper have clashed on air during the morning show on Radio Gold on Wednesday February 27, 2008. The two traded insults and made allegations and counter allegations against each other. Ms. Frances Essiam a former member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who was beaten at the party’s congress in Koforidua in the year 2005 as a result of which she resigned from the party and joined Dr. Obed Asamoah’s Democratic Freedom Party(DFP) and became its women’s leader but later resigned and is now reported to be hanging around the New Patriotic Party had hot exchanges with Archer during the radio show. The exchanges were in an apparent publication in the Enquirer newspaper which claims that Ms. Essiam had taunted and teased Archer at the public gallery of Parliament during the vetting of Dr. Richard Anane on Tuesday. According to the report Ms. Essiam had made constant references to the GH¢500,000 suit filed against him by Dr. Anane, taunting that the money was too huge for Archer to be able to pay up in court if found guilty of libel. The newspaper report also made references to the fact the Ms. Essiam is jobless and still unmarried. Ms. Essiam on the other hand rained invectives on Mr. Archer and told him she has employees working under her, and said he is only lucky to be working because some one has set up a newspaper for him to work, or else he would be jobless. During the exchanges, she threatened to sue Mr. Archer for saying she has set up a gang that goes about harassing people.