{"id":610804,"date":"2019-04-27T18:12:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 27 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n2019-04-27\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/7879"},"modified":"2019-04-27T18:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T18:12:42","slug":"osafo-maafos-continuous-silence-worrying-kweku-baako","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/27\/osafo-maafos-continuous-silence-worrying-kweku-baako\/","title":{"rendered":"Osafo Maafo&#8217;s continuous silence worrying \u2013 Kweku Baako"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 27 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-04-27<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/78794921.295.jpg\" alt=\"Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Nf\" title=\"Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Nf\" width=\"295\" height=\"227\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, journalist<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Veteran journalist Kweku Baako has urged Senior minister Yaw Osafo Maafo to apologise for comments suggesting government a powerful Chinese illegal miner was not prosecuted for commercial interest.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Baako observed the minister\u2019s continuous silence as public bashing enters week three is chipping away at his integrity.<\/p>\n<p>He said on JoyNews\u2019 news analysis show Newsfile Saturday, government is \u201cwalking a tight rope\u201d since his comments made in the UK during government\u2019s Town Hall Meeting, with Ghanaians abroad, went viral.<\/p>\n<p>The former Finance minister said prosecuting Aisha Huang linked who was heavily involved in illegal mining and other crimes, is \u201cnot going to solve your economic problems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not going to make you happy or me happy, that&#8217;s not important, the most important thing is that she has been deported from Ghana&#8230;&#8221;, he said on Sunday April 14, 2019<\/p>\n<p>He asked Ghanaians to focus on the economic benefits of Ghana\u2019s diplomatic engagement with China expected to be seen in the provision of infrastructure worth $2bn.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, individual and corporate, have lined up to condemn him and the government while calls for his resignation is simmering on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Baako who is Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide last week on Newsfile, condemned Osafo Maafo. But any expectation that the comments and subsequent bashing will die a quick death in the media has been dashed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy we back to these issues?\u201d the veteran journalist sized up another invitation to comment on the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>He said it\u2019s because the Senior minister has not taken advantage of the potential of an apology and retraction to quell the condemnation blitz.<\/p>\n<p>Although a Facebook post of the Senior minister tried to bring some clarification it did more to keep the criticisms coming than going away.<\/p>\n<p>Kweku Baako said if the minister, highly ranked within the government, keeps his silence and his sorry further \u201cit may eventually make an apology look redundant\u201d when it does come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 27 April 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-04-27 Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, journalist Veteran journalist Kweku Baako has urged Senior minister Yaw Osafo Maafo to apologise for comments suggesting government a powerful Chinese illegal miner was not prosecuted for commercial interest. Mr. Baako observed the minister\u2019s continuous silence as public bashing enters week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Osafo Maafo&#039;s continuous silence worrying \u2013 Kweku Baako - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/27\/osafo-maafos-continuous-silence-worrying-kweku-baako\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Osafo Maafo&#039;s continuous silence worrying \u2013 Kweku Baako - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Saturday, 27 April 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-04-27 Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, journalist Veteran journalist Kweku Baako has urged Senior minister Yaw Osafo Maafo to apologise for comments suggesting government a powerful Chinese illegal miner was not prosecuted for commercial interest. 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