{"id":1209832,"date":"2022-09-23T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/gabby-praises-kwesi-pratt-and-kweku-baako-this-is-why\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:51:09","slug":"gabby-praises-kwesi-pratt-and-kweku-baako-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/gabby-praises-kwesi-pratt-and-kweku-baako-this-is-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabby praises Kwesi Pratt and Kweku Baako; this is why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"515\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Kwaku-Baakop_1-696x515-696x515.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Kwaku-Baakop_1-696x515.jpg\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kweku Baako<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, has lauded Veteran journalists turned socio-political commentators, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. and Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the two veterans along with others like Kabral Blay-Amihere had earned their stripes by using journalism to defend freedom.<\/p>\n<p>He shared a photo of Messrs Baako and Pratt in a September 21, 2022 tweet with the caption: \u201cThe men who ruled with the pen and did so ruthlessly in defence of freedom. We salute them! Kweku, Kwesi, Kabral and Kofi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kweku Baako Jnr is currently Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper whereas Kwesi Pratt Jnr is the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The two, along with Blay-Amihere, were among the most vocal journalists in the days of military rule with Pratt and Baako being jailed because of their journalism and activism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The men who ruled with the pen and did so ruthlessly in defence of freedom. We salute them! Kweku, Kwesi, Kabral and Kofi. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A9NV6OnZ0k\">pic.twitter.com\/A9NV6OnZ0k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GabbyDarko\/status\/1572929442904936455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"lAFXdj6clK0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV News (22-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lAFXdj6clK0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kweku Baako A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Otchere-Darko, has lauded Veteran journalists turned socio-political commentators, Kwesi Pratt Jnr. and Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr. According to him, the two veterans along with others like Kabral Blay-Amihere had earned their stripes by using journalism to defend freedom. He shared a photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209832","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=1209832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}