{"id":274298,"date":"2011-01-24T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49307"},"modified":"2011-01-24T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:33:23","slug":"bbc-was-mischievous-sought-to-portray-mills-as-egoistic-inward-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/bbc-was-mischievous-sought-to-portray-mills-as-egoistic-inward-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Was Mischievous \u2026 Sought To Portray Mills As Egoistic &amp; Inward Looking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni has accused the <strong>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)<\/strong> of mischief by deliberately misrepresenting statements made by  President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills on the Ivorian political impasse,  at his recently held \u201cAction Year\u201d Editors Forum.<br \/>\nHe also claims  the principal public service broadcaster in the United Kingdom is trying  to cause disaffection for President Mills and Ghana as a whole in  Africa.<br \/>\nThe BBC, on its Network Africa Programme on Friday, January 22, quoted President Mills\u2019 \u201c<strong>dzi wo fie asem<\/strong>\u201d  (mind your own business) comment as a wise saying for the day. This led  to some uncharitable criticisms from listeners of the programme.<br \/>\nSpeaking in an interview on <strong>Peace FM\u2019s Kokrokoo<\/strong> Morning Show on Monday, Alhaji Mumuni asserted that the BBC was unfair  by trying to portray President Mills as a self-centered and inward  looking person who does not really care about the happenings in Ivory  Coast, and stressed that the BBC quoted President Mills out of context.<br \/>\n\u201cI  insist that the BBC has been unfair to President Mills and it was very  unfortunate because he has been taken completely out of context. They  have even ignored the several indications that he has made, that he was  extremely concerned about the conditions in Ivory Coast, and because it  was taken out of context, it created the impression that our president  is a self-centered, inward looking and selfish man who doesn\u2019t really  care about what is happening in Ivory Coast; when in fact, there is  abundance of evidence to show that it is not true. The president has  been concerned about the volatility of the situation in Ivory Coast and  he has talked about the polarization of the society based on ethnicity,\u201d  he lamented desperately.<br \/>\nAccording to him, President Mills has  constantly expressed his concern about the emerging armed groups in  Ivory Coast and the apparent two centers of power, which is a recipe for  disaster. He noted that President Mills only wants the Ivory Coast  problem to be handled with absolute care and diplomatically, to ensure  that the situation does not escalate and lead to an outbreak of  violence.<br \/>\n\u201cPresident Mills has constantly talked about the  emerging desperate armed groups in the country and the apparent two  centers of power which is a setting for disaster\u2026He doesn\u2019t want to see  the people of Ivory Coast streaming out of their country into Ghana as  refugees,\u201d he noted.<br \/>\nThe Foreign Affairs Minister refuted  suggestions that President Mills spoke too early on the issue of  committing troops to Cote D\u2019ivoire as a last resort to quell the Ivorian  crisis should Laurent Gbagbo refuse to quit power and that his \u201c<strong>mind your own business<\/strong>\u201d  statement was inappropriate, pointing out that the context in which the  President made that comment has been completely disregarded.<br \/>\nHe  explained that the \u2018controversial\u2019 remark, which is the center of the  alleged misrepresentation, was in reference to the fact that the Ivorian  crisis was an African problem which demands an African based-solution.<br \/>\n\u201cI  cannot say that the president\u2019s \u201cmind your own business\u201d comment was  not appropriate; it was just that the context was completely  disregarded, the words were isolated. When you do that, you can give any  meaning and the meanings that you give, will not necessarily reflect  the set of mind of the person who made those statements\u2026 people are just  mischievous\u2026When President Mills said \u2018mind your own business\u2019, he was  referring to the fact that the Ivory Coast problem is an African problem  and that it demands an African solution based on dialogue,  conciliation, mediation and on peace-building; this has been his  position,\u201d he expounded.<br \/>\nSource: Beatrice Adepa Frempong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni has accused the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) of mischief by deliberately misrepresenting statements made by President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills on the Ivorian political impasse, at his recently held \u201cAction Year\u201d Editors Forum. 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