{"id":1105772,"date":"2022-05-31T19:08:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/31\/dont-attack-journalists-focus-on-corruption-under-akuffo-addo-okatakyie-to-anas\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:08:39","slug":"dont-attack-journalists-focus-on-corruption-under-akuffo-addo-okatakyie-to-anas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/31\/dont-attack-journalists-focus-on-corruption-under-akuffo-addo-okatakyie-to-anas\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t attack Journalists, focus on corruption under Akuffo Addo &#8211; Okatakyie to Anas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/130db1ffdfbf45a7b1de5e5647b5aac1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Maverick journalist Okatakyie Afrifa Mensah has lambasted colleague journalist Aremeyaw Anas for his latest expos\u00e9 on journalism and press freedom in Ghana. He is of the view that Anas should rather focus on the ills going on under Akuffo Addo. He accepts the fact we have corrupt journalists in the country who are on the government payroll and always defending anything even if it is wrong. But he is of the view that this is not important now. His focus should rather be on the gargantuan corrupt practices going on under this regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Prof. Mills\u2019 time, you did an expos\u00e9 on the port, the Judiciary and all that but under Akuffo-Addo, you have turned to the media. You\u2019re sick. Do you pay taxes to the media? Yes! We know the media is corrupt. Some journalists are on the government payroll and others are benefiting from the government in various ways but that\u2019s not important now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/32b65e2ddded408c80ce89aef654525c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This government is the most corrupt government Ghana has ever seen yet you\u2019re there without any expos\u00e9 to it. If you don\u2019t know and Akuffo Addo leaves office and you try with your expos\u00e9 again some of us will stop you. You think you can play with the minds of the people?\u201d he fumed. He is not happy with the seeming silence of Anas under President Akuffo Addo. He made these assertions on his show &#8220;Abranaso&#8221; on TV XYZ.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Courageous92 (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\">\nAkuffo-Addo<br \/>\nAnas<br \/>\nMills<br \/>\nOkatakyie Afrifa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maverick journalist Okatakyie Afrifa Mensah has lambasted colleague journalist Aremeyaw Anas for his latest expos\u00e9 on journalism and press freedom in Ghana. He is of the view that Anas should rather focus on the ills going on under Akuffo Addo. He accepts the fact we have corrupt journalists in the country who are on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1105773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[543,8443,9181,1255,2958,342,3042,1142,11110],"class_list":["post-1105772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-addo","tag-akuffo","tag-anas","tag-attack","tag-corruption","tag-dont","tag-focus","tag-journalists","tag-okatakyie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105772","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=1105772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}