Ansabah, who said he once concocted stories to demean the President.<\/p>\n
Prof Kwame Karikari describes Baby Ansabah, known officially as Ato Sam, as a fraud and journalistic crook.<\/p>\n
He told Joy FM\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Super Morning Show that \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cAnybody who knows this fellow in the media since the early 90s and the late 80s when people were striving to open up the space for free speech and independent and free media knew this guy as a fraud,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he said.<\/p>\n
\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIf he says he concocted stories \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 I believe he must have done that \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 but in short I think Baby Ansaba\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6all he is trying to do is to find a good position in the new government so that he can eat; he is looking for crumbs.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n
According to Prof Karikari, Mr Sam \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cis not somebody that anybody should take seriously that your radio station shouldn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t waste time\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6on somebody like that. He is not worth to be called a journalist.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n
The professor\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s statement comes after Baby Ansabah admitted to Joy FM on Monday that he was never included in ex-President Kufuor\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s over-180 trips around the world during the ex-president\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s tenure.<\/p>\n
Mr Ansabah was recently picked among journalists who accompanied President Mills to Trinidad and Tobago for government business.<\/p>\n
Prof Karikari expressed regret over the situation where some people parade as journalists when they \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cdon\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t deserve to be noticed even as a anything other than simple crooks who want to eat some crumbs.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n
The office of the ex-president has reacted to Mr Sam\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s self-confession, describing it as rather unfortunate.<\/p>\n
\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt just saddens me and I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m amazed that a journalist of his calibre will say the things that he is saying. His sole criteria for judging President Kufuor is that he did not take him on a trip. <\/p>\n
“If that is what a journalist is worth, that I don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t take you on a trip and because of that you are not worthy to be called a good president, then of course he is not worthy to be called an editor,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d aide to the ex-president, Mr Frank Agyekum said.<\/p>\n
Mr Karikari said it remains the prerogative of the ruling National Democratic Congress to decide to add Baby Ansabah to the party\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s propaganda team but he warns that the journalist has no image to defend.<\/p>\n
As pressure mounts on the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to suspend Mr Sam, communications analyst Dr Niyi Alarbi said such a move does not bar the journalist from still practising the profession.<\/p>\n
Mr Alarbi said the confession of Baba Ansaba firms the need for journalists to ensure more sanity.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the GJA is meeting to take a decision on how to handle the implications of Baby Ansaba\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s confession he published stories about Professor Mills in the lead up to Election 2008 that he knew were fabrications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa has stirred further the controversy generated by the New Punch Editor, Baba Ansabah, who said he once concocted stories to demean the President. Prof Kwame Karikari describes Baby Ansabah, known officially as Ato Sam, as a fraud and journalistic crook. He told Joy FM\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Super […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n