Ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas has explained why he showed explosive documentary on corruption in football in Ghana to President Akufo Addo before airing it to the public.
According to him, it would have been unethical not to show it to the President.
Anas was criticised for showing excerpts of his ‘Number 12’ investigative piece titled ‘When Corruption and Greed Become the Norm’ – to President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and other top government officials before telecasting it.
Speaking on Peace FM news @ 12, Thursday, Anas said: “I have no regrets going to the President… we are talking about the President of the nation, the Vice, ministers of state…What do you think would have happened if we went ahead to show the film without showing it to them? The fairness in all this is that someone has done an investigation you have to give the other party a fair opportunity of answering those questions. So yes I went to the President, he gave us his side of the story. We went to the Vice President, we spoke to all the ministers involved to give us their side of the story”.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com
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The same video Anas used to blackmail people and accused them of by force bribery even though the voice on the video mentioned gifts. How come his own selfie video is exposing him and somebody has to go to court to prove it? Now the question is if Anas recognizes the court of law how come he could not send his victims there and show the video to spare Ghana the disgrace in the international community? So, now the question is this what is the essence of his so called investigation? just to disgrace a hard earned reputation, destroy huge talents lives, bring institutions and structures built for ages down, disgrace Ghana to the outside World for nothing and then cash in?.Anas look no further because the prove of your own selfie video is that Hafiz has accused you of taken $50,000 from him as bribe to drop his case. Hafiz claimed his friend also added another $50,000 to it making the total $100,000. Anas has never responded to this allegation and silence means consent. Above all, 'pick and choose' has become his hallmark of his "Kwaku Ananse" and Ntikuma tricks to blackmail your victims
Anas is a boggusss scam and corrupt fellow. he needs to be jailed
Well said @Yanks. The fact that Anas is huffing and puffing from one Media House to the other, usurping the "PR" role of Kwaku Baako in their schemes should tell you something. I will just summarize and repeat what a highly learned colleague told me. He said " from what I saw in the who watches the watchman, nobody can convince me that Anas is clean". Dear Mr Anas, you have been NAMED, SHAMED and I won't be surprised if you are JAILED. Just like the EC boss, we saw it coming. It was just a matter of time. I must admit, some of your work was commendable. However tempting innocent people(and I don't mean Kwasi Nyantakyi, there were others in the #12 video) with gifts and coming to tell us they were bribes REQUIRED that you were super clean. Unfortunately events unfolding and your desperation at the radio stations( which exposed you and kwaku baako more) are proving that you are not only GREEDY, CORRUPT and FRAUDULENT, but also (it won't surprise me if you are judged to be ) a CRIMINAL in a court of competent jurisdiction and not the "ONE-SIDE courts in your videos". SHAME UNTO YOU.
INTERESTING TIMES AHEAD. HONESTLY, I FEEL THERE ARE A LOT OF EXPLOSIVES COMING UP SOON.. PRESIDENT AKUFFO ADDO MUST BE READY TO BE SERVED WHAT HE DESERVES SOON.
wrong anas! my thinking is that you had wanted you entrap the akuffo addo and bawumia. what would you have done if the prez has asked you to delete the portion about him from the video? my guess is that you would have run to the toilet maama to reveal it to him to be used as political weapon against akuffo addo. reasonable ghanaians are of the view that your main target was the president and nyantakyi was used as a proxy to get the president. many smart people have noticed how emboldened the toilet maama has become recently. he had hoped that his terrorist boy anas was going to get akuffo addo.