Prince Minkah describes Oppong Nkrumah's comments on his disappointing and unprofessional attack

Prince Minkah, organizer of Free Media Vanguard, who denounced an act of vandalism at his home less than 24 hours after his group embarked on a procession to protest the closure of some media houses by the National Communications Authority (NCA), took the Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah to the cleaners.

Here is the complete open letter

"Dear Kojo Oppong Nkrumah,

I am very disappointed with your unprofessional and inhuman response to the attack on Prince Minkah, the leader of the vanguard of free media. Of all the weaknesses and deadly sins that one can reasonably expect from an aspiring politician, deliberate lies and total disregard for the life and safety of a family do not exist. are not part of it. However, your comments have proven that I and all the people who have venerated and praised you so much for your honesty, we can no longer have so much respect for you, we can no longer believe that you would be different from society. , given your experience in journalism.

The fact that you can so unconsciously attack a family, motivate the attack on a family and blame the victims for the same reasons leaves much to be desired. The fact that you can, with unscrupulous intent, blame an attacked journalist, while conveniently relieving his badailants of all responsibility, renders our criminal justice system absurd.

You see, when you announced your entry into active politics, I was one of the very many to have developed the new belief that your participation would bring mental health to the game, that your presence announced a dawn of hope and a security for journalists, and that your participation will inject respect and public respect for the work and principles of journalism.

Sorry to tell you that I have long since suspended all belief in a Messianic Kojo. As scholar as you are, the healthy and professional thing you do is to condemn the attack and treat it as a purely criminal case that must be investigated.

I knew that the Kojo would have been really worried and worried about the trauma to the victim, his family and his children. But no, you are the least disturbed because you have become the sorry shadow of your old self – the truthful, human, professional and decent Kojo who, up to now, never sacrificed his noble principles for peanuts supporters.

Young journalists like me, once caught in a whirlwind of hope and hormones and inspired by your work, are now wondering what fate awaits us when our own journalist enlisted in the league of unpleasant souls who run our country with Orwellian sayings, using our laws as a cudgel to oppress the press and presses.

In all of this, you must badume your duties as Information Minister with temperance, decency and professionalism and realize that you have a responsible political career to build. Because we, Ghanaians, are likely to ask you in the very near future to report on your current rash exploits as a minister.

Dear Kojo, I am convinced, and many who have heard your response to the attack, that you are very much aware of the attack and that your complicity is unquestionable, unless of course you never meant these irresponsible and disgusting explosions. I would like to remind you that we will not base our demands on the freedom of the press and the safety of journalists.

No, we will not do it. And like all others who have defended the freedom of the media, we question and mourn with the American revolutionary Patrick Henry: "Is life so expensive, or is peace sweet, to the point of being bought at home? chain prices and slavery? Forbidden, Almighty God! I do not know which clbad of others can take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!