Africa Watch Magazine, has described as "a total fabrication and a figment of the imagination", reports that it (magazine) intends in the coming days, to publish a 44-page Special Report on the ‘poor education in Ghana’.
According to these media reports, as much as 73,000 copies of the February issue of the magazine have already been airlifted to Ghana for a "smear campaign against President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government".
A publication on Thursday, 25 January by the Daily Guide and Statesman newspapers claimed that the yet-to-be-released anti-Free SHS publication by the Africa Watch magazine, were allegedly sponsored by Mr Mahama.
However, Africa Watch says the report is "false and a product of paid media mercenaries whose sole mission is to utterly defame the reputation of a journalistic publication whose views some others do not agree with".
A statement by the Executive Editor of African Watch, Steve Mallory said "such false news attacks not only hurt the targeted media house, but also reduce the public perception toward all the free press, while damaging the integrity of journalism and honest reporting, which are more important now than ever before".
The statement further added that "Africawatch has no campaign to wage against President Akufo-Addo’s government", neither does it have any links whatsoever with ex-President Mahama.
"We must also state that we have no ties to former President John Mahama, nor has he commissioned us to do any Special Report on Ghana’s free SHS programme, Steve Mallory added.
Read full statement below
STATEMENT BY EXECUTIVE EDITOR STEVE MALLORY REGARDING FALSE NEWS AIMED AT DEFAMING AFRICAWATCH MAGAZINE
Our attention has been drawn to a fake news report now appearing in a section of the Ghanaian media to the effect that Africawatch magazine “has initiated a campaign to discredit the free Senior High School (SHS) programme, introduced by the New Patriotic Party (NPP)” and that “the magazine has consequently dedicated its February 2018 edition scheduled to be released unto newsstands next week, for the start of the said campaign.”
According to this fake news story, Africawatch has devoted “a 44-page Special Report on what it says is ‘poor education in Ghana’”, and that 73,000 copies of the February issue have already been airlifted to Ghana for a so-called smear campaign against President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government.
This story is a completely false one, a product of paid media mercenaries whose sole mission is to utterly defame the reputation of a journalistic publication whose views some others do not agree with.
The Africawatch cover photo that was published by the media purporting to be our February 2018 cover is also fake. No such front cover was ever designed or printed by us.
We want to state categorically that no Special Report on Ghana’s free SHS programme has been published by Africawatch, and no such story was ever planned. These allegations are a total fabrication and a figment of the imagination of those behind this hate campaign.
We therefore want to be on public record, in the clearest terms possible, that Africawatch has no campaign to wage against President Akufo-Addo’s government. We must also state that we have no ties to former President John Mahama, nor has he commissioned us to do any Special Report on Ghana’s free SHS programme, as has been claimed by sections of the media in Accra.
We report news as we see it, and no one can peddle or influence our editorial policies nor control what we choose to publish. Our coverage in the past has always been informed by national interest, and national interest only. So any attempt by faceless individuals to tarnish the good name of this magazine will not stand.
We have instructed our lawyers to begin legal action against those media houses involved in these grossly slanderous allegations that seem to be politically motivated.
Such false news attacks not only hurt the targeted media house, but also reduce the public perception toward all the free press, while damaging the integrity of journalism and honest reporting, which are more important now than ever before.
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WANING::!!!Every refugee receives passport given by United Nations. Never on this earth refugee receive the passport of that country except Ghana. Do our parlimantarians know law regarding refugees? Even refugee have to stay a while at least 5 years before he/she can apply for that country's nationality. If accepted then he/she can apply for travel documents such as passport. Therefore the whole thing concern these Guantanamo 2 is wrong and fault. They have to apply their refugee status from Ministry of Interior and if granted then 5 years later as for citizenship. It will be totally wrong if the government fail to follow this refugee or international law. Ghanaians are watching oo. We live in Europe and this is what we go through or the process we follow.How can Ghana be so loose and cheap because of few money. Look what happened to our fellow brothers in Libya and Arab countries like Quatar etc.
Mahama is trying very hard against all adds to buy his way back to power with the stolen public money.
i have done a wonderful job, and some one is trying to tarnish it, why wont i allow it for the people i said i have done a good job them to testify it. if i have done well as i claim.what is my fears. can lies overcome truth?
Smart move by the NPP. If indeed Africa Watch had plans to publish any such report, it has been thwarted by the Daily Guide story. As for Africa watch, the least said about the better because their fake cancer report of Nana Addo in 2016 is fresh on our minds. Nation wreckers!
If for nothing at all, we remember the FAKE cancer report of our president in 2016 (then opposition leader). Where did they get that fake medical report from in the first place? At least we can tell that they were up to some mischief because we can see clearly now that the president is STRONG, FIT AND has no cancer. For me this single report has permanently ruined the little reputation of this so called WATCH of a magazine. If they want us to accord them any modicum of respect, they should unreservedly apologize to the president and to the rest of us that perhaps they were paid to publish that false report.
For how long is the president going to be away? Just as we don't swear in the vice-president when the president leaves we need not swear in the speaker of parliament. Swearing in must only take place when the president and vice president become incapacitated, die, resign, or are removed removed from office.
Well, I first got to know Mr. Steve Mallory (alias Kwadwo Osei), a bona fide cohort of the group that I have dubbed “The Ejisu/Edweso Boys” in 1988, when the young man came to the Harlem offices of the New York Amsterdam News, the world-renowned African-American newspaper of record, as it were, in the New York Metropolitan Area, desperately looking for a job as a sports writer. He would be briefly interviewed by the then Ghanaian managing-editor of the weekly and sent off on his way, because the Ghana Institute of Journalism-trained alumnus knew practically nothing about the foremost American pastime of baseball. I know what I am talking about because I was in the editorial suite of the Amsterdam News working as a freelance reporter; I was also then a student at the City College of New York of the City University of New York. I even saw off the visibly crestfallen Mr. Mallory at the 125th Street Subway (or Underground Train) Station back to the Borough of Brooklyn from whence he had come. We would also keep in touch fairly regularly by phone. Steve would shortly end up working for the Daily Challenge, a relatively minor African-American newspaper published out of Brooklyn by Mr. Thomas Watkins, Jr. Indeed, it was after his stint with the latter rag that Mr. Mallory started publishing his first newspaper, the African Observer, assisted by a Sierra Leonean journalist who would shortly part ways with his Ghanaian colleague. We shall come back to this section of my encounter with “Opanyin” Kwadwo Osei a little later. One thing that I darn well know for a fact is that Mr. Mallory is a political ***barred word***, a knave and a gigolo, to be precise; for the now editor-publisher of the so-called Africa Watch magazine used to work for the notorious Capt. Kojo Tsikata until he apparently had a spiritual and/or moral turnaround and decided to hop onto the Kufuor wagon and started trucking with the main opposition New Patriotic Party throughout much of the 1990s. All this while, Mr. Mallory regularly used his little-read newspaper to publish reams of what he imperiously claimed to be the villainous shenanigans of Capt. Tsikata and the Rawlings-led National Democratic Congress (NDC). We also know that prior to his arrival here in the United States, Mr. Kwadwo Osei had worked with the Voice of America (VOA) and even done 15-minute weekly broadcasts from Abidjan, in the Ivory Coast, that sought to expose the behind-the-scenes activities of the NDC to the proverbial international community. For the foregoing reason, some of his most ardent critics have even suggested that Mr. Mallory was once in the pay of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Indeed, because of his putatively unpatriotic activities, at one time the editor-publisher of Africa Watch was on the “Most Wanted” list of the National Democratic Congress. And so it is quite interesting that Mr. Mallory would now be marching in lock-step with the anti-Akufo-Addo Ewe-Wing of the very party that once envisaged him to be one of his inveterate enemies. But then, hasn't it been long recognized that, indeed, “Politics makes strange bedfellows”? Anyway, throughout much of the 1990s, Capt. Tsikata and his cohorts were widely reported to be engaged in a legal tussle and wrangle with Mr. Mallory. The latter himself gleefully regaled me with the same. Capt. Tsikata, who was then Mr. Rawlings' National Security Adviser, was, reportedly, in regular consultation with his lawyers right here in the United States over the possibility of bringing a libel suit against the man who until recently was in the pay of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who may well have facilitated Mr. Mallory's departure from Ghana and entry into the United States. Mr. Mallory, it is significant to observe, used the bulk of the news pages of his now-defunct African Observer newspaper to detail his supposedly epic battles with Capt. Tsikata in order to make himself feel like the Promethean hero that he could never become in ten lifetimes! Let us conclude this section of our discussion on the “Spiv” called “Steve” by highlighting the fact that when upon the approval of his application for permanent residence here in the United States, as has been the practice for decades, Mr. Mallory had to go back to his native country to receive his green card, “Opanyin” Kwadwo Osei chose, instead, to go to Liberia.
NPP cover blown they were trying to fabricate Lies against President and it has backfired and there is nowhere to his.
Steve Mallory is a member of NPP, so why blame NDC for this publication...pigs
Blasted Vultures!You report news the way it is. Tell us how you managed to get your paws on a so called medical report of Nana Addo in 2016 that alleged that the man had so many life threatening ailments; a single one of whom would have rendered him bedridden?Yet here we are ;the man is hopping around like nobody's business.You are the mercenary cowardly vultures that are a disgrace to the media landscape.