{"id":1077971,"date":"2022-05-06T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/the-era-my-life-was-under-threat-as-a-journalist-was-under-npp-govt-gabby-otchere-darko-revealed\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:50:00","slug":"the-era-my-life-was-under-threat-as-a-journalist-was-under-npp-govt-gabby-otchere-darko-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/the-era-my-life-was-under-threat-as-a-journalist-was-under-npp-govt-gabby-otchere-darko-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Era My Life Was Under Threat As A Journalist Was Under NPP Gov&#8217;t &#8211; Gabby Otchere Darko Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/d24c40e73d444766afdba49655a51b28\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian lawyer and former journalist, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko has revealed that the era his life was under serious threat as a journalist was under the New Patriotic Party government.<\/p>\n<p>He said as an editor of a newspaper, the time he feared for his life was under President Kufour&#8217;s first term- the era of the repeal of the criminal libel law.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the threats and assaults which he endured as a journalist were all from opposition activists incensed by his writing and . <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Significantly, however, the threats and actual assaults which I endured as a journalist were all from opposition activists incensed by my writings and .&#8221; Part of his statement read <\/p>\n<p>He said he was under 24hour armed protection but he chose not to make noise about it. He endured it quietly and continued his good works.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, the era my life was under threat as a journalist was under an NPP government. But the threats and attacks I endured were from opposition elements!&#8221; He categorically stated <\/p>\n<p>He said he knew talking about those things could have gotten him into real trouble with the law.<\/p>\n<p>Read full statement below <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/b865bcc52193488cbf68da6cb5d88ccc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Newsflash (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGabby Asare Otchere Darko<br \/>\nGhanaian<br \/>\nKufour<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian lawyer and former journalist, Gabby Asare Otchere Darko has revealed that the era his life was under serious threat as a journalist was under the New Patriotic Party government. He said as an editor of a newspaper, the time he feared for his life was under President Kufour&#8217;s first term- the era of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8888,4056,1299,225,2106,696,7025,4774,2672,513],"class_list":["post-1077971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-darko","tag-era","tag-gabby","tag-govt","tag-journalist","tag-life","tag-npp","tag-otchere","tag-revealed","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}