Ghana’s investigative journalists, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has announced that the cry about corruption at the passport office has come to his attention and that very soon, he would focus his attention in the area.
The passport office would soon see me, he said, amid thunderous applause from the audience who attended a public lecture he (Anas) addressed at the Central University near Tema, over the weekend.
According to him, there was gargantuan corruption at the passport office “and Ghana needs me to be there to unravel the seeming unending corruption, within that part of our economy.”
Anas Aremeyaw Anas has, meanwhile, challenged Justice Paul Derry to face him before the Panel of Eminent Committee of Judges constituted by the Chief Justice, if he is a man.
The 2015 Ghana’s best Journalist of the year said it was needless for Justice Paul Derry, who was a former High Court judge to run to the International Human Rights’ Court, Abuja, Nigeria, to seek relief, after Ghana’s Chief Justice, Madam Georgina Theodora Wood, had constituted a panel of eminent committee in Ghana to hear his defence.
Justice Derry was among the judges that Anas’ exposé implicated as being corrupt and, therefore, influencing judgement in cases they sat on in their courts. Consequently, he was reported to have prayed the International Human Rights Courts in Abuja to cite the ace journalist for using his profession to invade his privacy and breaching the journalism ethical standards.
Taking his turn at the Central University’s (CU) annual Public Lecture Series, with the faculty of Communications, at Miotso, Dawhenya, Anas said presently, 72 law suits stared at him, but they would not scare him from chasing and exposing the corrupt deeds of public officials.
This year’s CU Public Lecture was on the theme: ‘Putting the pieces together: the aftermath of the judiciary exposé’, and Anas said albeit he recognized that his work might be at variance with the ethics of journalism, it was necessary he defied certain odds to expose corruption.
“My definition and style for journalism is to name, shame and jail to save the country from the hands of unscrupulous persons, whose core aim is to rob the nation of what it deserves,” he stated.
The masked journalist, thus, said that much as he would welcome criticisms of his style and definition, he would not slack affirming his shift from the academic definition of journalism, otherwise, the nation wreckers would go scot-free.
Defending his definition of journalism, he said: “The repositories of ethics may have their views but the Ghanaian society differs from theirs, therefore, the need for my style of journalism.”
He said he could not watch such nation wreckers go unexposed if he did not shift from the academic definition of journalism.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas held that judges in Ghana, over the years, had not been questioned so well, even though he said they were not sacrosanct.
President of CU, Professor Kwesi Yankah, lauded Anas’ efforts of ensuring that corruption was reduced in Ghana’s socio-economic growth.
He believed that Ghana would, one day, have more of such brave and learned journalists to uncover more rots in the country.
Source: The Chronicle
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At the passport office people of Ghana are treated like trash.They are extorted and tossed around from day to day.What really made me sad was seeing old men and women who were treated with total disregard.I laughed at the irony that in 20 yrs time most of them will be in the same position will they expect to be treated differently?
and also DVLA - i was shocked when i was told i have to pay Ghs200 for the replacement of my licence for something that cost only Ghs64. The officials have 'their men'outside working as the Goro boys. The share the money after close of work, this was confirmed by one of the DVLA officials.
Our president fight corruption with is mouth only but inspite of all that his people hav stollen to friends and family and also tellibg us about monies paid to people wrongly. Are they gimi people, what was running through their head before making tjose payment that they defended before. All those that have messed up our cash are freely walking and taking big posision in ndc. Now look at how corruptoon can not even be hidden. Every one is getting corrupt because that is the order of the day. What kind of leaders kuraa are these who pretend not to know of the corruption. Who paid the smartys bus branding money? Is that person a ***barred word*** to just pay money for some one to shout of corruption before they realize the deal was bad and some money must be refunded. What of if no one saw to make noise about that corruption? But tjose that commited this are freely walking in ndc. Mahama go suffer pass every one cos he has brought julor people to just mess up the country monies.
Legalise corruption
Anas please can't wait to see such corrupted area
MASSA RELEASE THE THING.YOU FINISH AM LOOOONG TYM
masa release the thing ...you've finish am already
Anas, please release the video quickly to to help stop the bleeding. The longer you delay the further people get swindled at the passport office.
I had no option than to pay Ghs500 for a new passport at the Sunyani passport office on my recent visit to Ghana in Jan 2017. And I dont get it why as a nation we dont want to reduce the human factor in our system especially in institutions that deals with money. Lets invest in our financial infrastructure to save on the waste in the system.
Hi Anas,please go to flagstaff house to investigate how our money is been use.It has been alleged that Ndc has built a vault at Abelemkpe where the stolen monies are being kept