Daily Guide, a private newspaper owned by former NPP National Chairman and current Board Chairman of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has retracted a story titled “Napo Celebrates Birthday in Monaco” and has proceeded to apologize to the Energy Minister and MP for Manhyia South, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh for same.
Lawyer for the Minister, Nana Agyei Baffour in a letter dated 1st June, 2023, demanded an apology and retraction of the false allegations made against the Minister; failure for which legal remedies were going to be instituted against the media house.
This was after Spokesperson for the Minister had also debunked the story, describing it as unintelligent and a complete fabrication.
Daily Guide realizing the looming danger has in a publication on page 12 of their 2nd June, 2023 edition, has apologized to the Minister and given the Minister’s response front-page position in the same publication.
“Upon a careful examination, we discovered that our initial full report contained factual inaccuracies”, the Daily Guide publication said.
It also said; “We appreciate the need for accuracy and as such extend our apologies for the earlier misreport.”
“We hereby retract the story and apologize for any inconvenience the publication might have caused”, it concluded.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Hahahaaaaa, because the minister is bent on stopping the PetroSA deal , they wanted to pay him back , unfortunately for that person it has backfired. You do me, i do you has failed to work. Those who have been following the PetroSA deal knows what am talking about.
He should still send them to court. Good journalism is verifying the information before publishing, not delibrately fabricating lies on someone and apologising.
Shameful
Good journalism. Accepting a mistake and issuing an apology makes one stronger but not weaker.