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Broadcast journalist, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD) says he is unfazed by the numerous death threats he has received from politicians after speaking \u201cthe truth\u201d to power.<\/p>\n
According to him, he will not allow cowardice to push him to become silent when the nation is being mismanaged.<\/p>\n
When answering a question on JoyNews\u2019 AM Show<\/strong> if he was afraid for his life, KKD said \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have enjoyed too much of life. I have had happiness and I have had the lower version of happiness which is a pleasure. I have had plenty of it.<\/p>\n \u201cI have eaten in places that some of the people in political office are now seeking to dine in. What have I got to lose?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n KKD became a media sensation after he expressed his surprise at government for constantly employing the services of a co-founded by the Finance Minister \u2013 Data Bank Financial Services \u2013 as advisors for some of Ghana\u2019s international loan transactions.<\/p>\n His outburst on GTV\u2019s Breakfast Show on Wednesday, August 17, resonated with many Ghanaians who have since asked leaders to avoid occupying a public office that can cause a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n But the Ministry of Finance has dismissed the claims that Databank and Black Star Brokerage were handpicked by the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to act as Bond Market Specialists for government bond issuance, hence benefiting from those transactions.<\/p>\n In a statement, the Ministry said, it is incorrect the claim that these two firms have been appointed as advisors to the Ministry of Finance (MoF).<\/p>\n \u201cThe selection of the Primary Dealers [PDs] and Bond Market Specialists [BMSs] is an automatic process based on market performance and historical secondary market trading activity which is publicly available and cannot be manipulated by the Ministry of Finance [MoF] or the Bank of Ghana\u201d.<\/p>\n KKD on AM Show maintains his position that the Finance Minister\u2019s affiliation to Databank may be the reason the country keeps borrowing, a habit he insisted cannot be allowed to continue.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Broadcast journalist, Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD) says he is unfazed by the numerous death threats he has received from politicians after speaking \u201cthe truth\u201d to power. According to him, he will not allow cowardice to push him to become silent when the nation is being mismanaged. When answering a question on JoyNews\u2019 AM Show if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1106,10495,448,7883,8163,2256],"class_list":["post-1188638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-die","tag-kkd","tag-power","tag-scared","tag-speaking","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188638","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=1188638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}