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Release
NPP
June 11, 2012
MILLS’ HYPOCRISY EXPOSED BY KOKU ANYIDOHO
Last week Wednesday's revelation on Radio Gold by a
leading member of Government's Communications Team,
Samuel George, that Koku Anyidoho, the President's
Director of Communications is the man behind the
nastiest tabloid paper in Ghana, The Informer, shocked
many Ghanaians.
While Samuel George's disclosure only confirms what the
New Patriotic Party had suspected all along, it,
nevertheless, reaffirms a well-informed perception in
the country over the hypocrisy of President J E A Mills.
President Mills has never missed an opportunity to call
for decency in political discourses, but watches on
while his appointees use unprintable words on their
political opponents. In fact, President Mills is
responsible for encouraging this culture of insults at
the very top level. This is because he, in his un-presidented
style, rewards his insulting and abusive party
activists, especially the younger ones, with ministerial
portfolios.
The Informer is infamous for its regular defamatory and
nasty cartoons, blatant lies and insults about the NPP
and its leading figures, and distasteful write-ups by
one of the dirtiest columnists in the history of
journalism in Ghana, “Okyeame on the beat”.
Not only has it been confirmed by the Government
Communications Team member that Mr Anyidoho uses "his"
paper, The Informer, to settle personal and political
scores, but also that he is the man behind that
faceless, despicable columnist, Okyeame. So the
President’s “Okyeame” (or linguist) is also the
“Okyeame” of dirty campaign in Ghana.
Think of any kind of word that is appalling to be used
on a human being and Okyeame, now unmasked as Koku
Anyidoho, would be more than willing to use it in his
columns or feature articles. You may ask no more whose
face is behind the latest dirty pen in the NDC, Margaret
Jackson.
This is not the first time that Mr Anyidoho has been
accused of such a thing. Years ago he was similarly
accused of being the face behind the vile Cassius Clay
of the Palaver, leading to problems with his employment
with a financial institution at the time.
Similarly, members of the Government Communications Team
have disclosed to the NPP that President Mills'
Communications Director was the main brain behind all
the discredited attempts by the NDC to smear the
Presidential Candidate of the NPP with false allegations
of substance abuse.
It is our hope, and certainly, that of well-meaning
Ghanaians, that per Saturday’s directive from the
Castle, the NDC has finally come around to recognising
that Mr Anyidoho and his kind were leading them to a
propaganda dead-end and have now switched from such
unacceptable display of character assassination.
But, we want to turn our attention on the President.
Stories from his own stable, including MPs and
Ministers, suggest that his Director of Communications
has a very negative and destructively powerful undue
influence over him and uses that to do a lot of things
in the name of the President.
The threats of closing the country’s borders because the
limping man was singing like a canary, to death threats
issued against the flagbearer of the NPP, are just but a
few of the things done by Koku Anyidoho all in the name
of President Mills.
This only confirms the two major categories of the
public image of the President. Firstly, that he is
either very weak or secondly, that he is very
hypocritical or indeed both. Whichever way one looks at
it, this is a very un-presidented way to run this
blessed nation of ours.
The NPP is, therefore, demanding an explanation from the
President as to why he would repeatedly assure Ghanaians
that he was against the politics of insults and still
have his director of communications controlling the most
insulting newspaper in Ghana.
Ghanaians are saying a big No to another four years of
lies, insults, propaganda and corruption under a weak
and un-presidented leader, Prof Mills.
2012 is certainly the time for Nana Akufo-Addo and the
NPP to bring back hope to all Ghanaians and build a
society of opportunities for all.
......signed......
Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie
NPP General Secretary
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