Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has shared his experience during the media encounter with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The President had an encounter with the media at the Flagstaff House Wednesday. After the encounter, some journalists bemoaned the fact that they didn’t get the chance to ask their questions.
Contributing to a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji, Kwesi Pratt narrated how he got the opportunity to ‘finally’ ask a question during the event.
“When the door was opened for people to ask questions, I was the first person to put up my hand; it is possible that the minister did not see me…anytime I put up my hand so forcefully, the minister came and said this is the time we want gender balance so it has to be a woman and of cause not being a woman I didn’t have the chance and then he will come up and say no we’ve had a one or two newspapers so let’s have radio, because I wasn’t with radio, I didn’t have the chance and so on and I was getting deeply frustrated and I am not saying this to mean the minister was deliberately avoiding me; it may well be that he genuinely wanted to achieve that balance…it went on and on until the President made an intervention which led to my being given the microphone; that for me may have indicated that the President was willing to listen to everybody…” he narrated.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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Mr Pratt, you always overrate yourself. Try to be a little objective and accommodating! It is not always that one and only one journalist will get the opportunity to ask questions and more so at all functions. The minister is human and trying to bring in gender balance is an innovation. Why should you always be at the blaming end? You have the air of being the most important newsman in the country, but you know full well that you don't come close to many of them even some of the young ones. Try to be professional and view issues with more mature and open eyes
The title should be "...struggling to get the opportunity to ask a question. not struggling to ask a question.
Aooh, Kweeesi Pratt...wopre dodo, aaaba. The most important journalist of the day and he had to be selected at all cost or else.....
So this too is news. Are super human. Some got lost entirely. Were all journalists given the chance in the past? Even the question you asked was infantile. You know very well that the probe is a bogus exercise. Some people just want to exhibit their youthful exuberance and is backed by wicked minds.