Mr. President, Why order closure?

"If that's the case, close them." An order from President Akufo Addo was given.

President Nana Akufo Addo whom I understood was in the company of a group of people, when any of them complained about how the voices of the dissent – Radio Gold and Radio XYZ torment his administration, to which he would have responded by such an order. .

The rest, they say, it's the story.

People who know Nana Akufo Addo, aka Cee One, will tell you that he hates critics. He can not take it. That his reaction out of the camera to the same thing is just like an angry elephant would do to his environment.

Having heard all this and for no reason to doubt, I chose to grant the President the benefit of the doubt for the closure of the two opposition stations and their subsidiaries in the regions.

Even at this time when the president committed the most sincere act; For months, the RTI bill was pbaded, but Parliament had to hurry to match the signing of the bill with the closing date of the FM station. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and I anticipated that the human rights lawyer and civil liberties advocate as he wants to be known, he would take advantage of the opportunity to reaffirm it.

That has not happened He has never commented on such a critical national affair and has not done so since. He begins to understand that it is a gestapo operation.

In fact, what struck me later and that took away the benefit of the doubt is the revelation made about a week ago by Dr. Charles Wereko Brobbey, aka Tarzan, that he had wrote to the president on this subject, followed by a meeting to explain how physical, other attacks on the media and their practitioners and the deafening silence betray a course that he, president, defended in the past as a lawyer advocate from Radio Eye against the state.

Ghana has laws and the president can take a stand to create a climate of trust. What we are seeing now is only endangering trust.

I am sure that if President John Mahama did that, he would certainly have been wrong with the media. He is not going to order the repression of the media and not pretend not to know what has happened.

A shutdown will only occur under a despotic tyrant and we would refuse to let our mind worry about other consequences, such as job and business losses, among other things, for the company. ;economy.

It has been months since Tarzan met the president, he has not spoken, let alone condemned the attacks, leaving Tarzan only the choice to make a serious verdict to the government, describing it as the worst in the world.^th republic in terms of safeguarding the freedom of the media.

"The removal of the freedom of speech we are witnessing under President Akufo Addo is simply a golden age of the culture of silence." That's what the owner of a newspaper and former ambbadador of Ghana in Namibia, Ambbadador Alhaji Haruna Attah.

The voices of Tarzan, Alhaji Haruna Attah, Kwesi Pratt and other key figures support a #DefendMediaFreedom campaign championed by Multimedia Ltd.

Around this time, the #DefendMediaFreedom campaign was launched and shows the magnitude of the threat to freedom of speech and democracy as a whole under President Akufo Addo.

Nana Kofi Coomson, owner and publisher of the newspaper Chronicle, has long warned that he could not sleep with his eyes closed under Akufo Addo's government.

In addition, Dr. Nyahoe Tamakloe of the NPP before the 2016 elections said: "I do not believe that Akufo Addo has this trick to shoot. I will say that Ghanaians will learn a bitter lesson in leadership if they win. "

At present, juxtapose retrograde acts such as the attack on Modern Ghana's offices and the kidnapping of its editors by National Security agents, the unresolved murder of investigative journalist Ahmed Suale, the threat of harm caused to other journalists – forcing some to exile – while others can not sleep at home, the opposition and radio stations of many others under the supervision of President Akufo Addo have been closed in a targeted manner against the warnings, verdicts and stories of Nana Kofi Coomson, Dr. Nyahoe Tamakloe, Tarzan and others.

I maintain that Mobotu Sese Seko, Iddi Amin, Jean-Bedel Bokbada, Gnbadingbe Eyadema and others whom we have described as despots have never been, because they were not democracies.

Ladies and Gentlemen, help me to welcome the despotic tyrant of the century; Nana Addo, Danquah Akufo Addo aka Cee One!

Writer: Koku Mawuli Nanegbe
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