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I Lied About Pres. Mills' Health - New Punch Editor
By Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot
Accra, Jan 29, Ghanadot -
Journalist and Editor of New Punch newspaper, Ato Sam, also
known as Baby Ansaba, on Wednesday made hair-raising
revelations of how he has in the recent past published
stories he knew were untrue in support of causes he believed
in.
He claimed, and included publication ahead of the 2008
general elections that then candidate J.E.A. Mills was sick
and had been hospitalised, and another, later on, that Mills
had fallen flat (owing to weak health) on a political
platform during a campaign rally.
He
has since been travelling with President Mills, to Trinidad
and Tobago late last year for instance, along with other
journalists and has also been the target of criticisms, some
of which claimed he was (and is) a ‘stomach journalist’ and
a ‘fair weather" friend.
However, Ato Sam said on "Asempa FM" this morning that those
jealous of him will come to shame, because he did not only
sing the praises of the NPP while in power, but he also
cautioned them when necessary, and that he would continue to
do same to the NDC.
Baby Ansaba then went on to heap praises on President Mills
for counting him worthy to travel with him on an
international tour, explaining that even the John Agyekum
Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party, for which he crusaded to
help keep in power, did not as much as offer him a single
trip on any of the president’s over 180 international tours.
He
never wondered why these confessed lies never got him on a
trip with the Kufuor team.
He said while some of the publications, aimed at undermining
the National Democratic Congress party’s effort at winning
power were pure fabrications, he and others who were
similarly disposed, were sometimes misled because they were
not offered the true reflection of certain situations.
And when against his wildest expectations, the New Patriotic
Party lost power to the NDC, he left the country to seek
refuge in the United States of America, fearing persecution.
Quoting the Apostle Paul in the Bible, he said he had
repented from his childish ways, for if he acted childishly
in the past, he was now wiser and would act as a grown up.
Ghanadot
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