Former Ghana Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi has called into question the investigative work of Anas Aremeyaw Anas, suggesting he is not a true investigative journalist as has been touted.
Anas who has in the last decade been on a mission to ensure that corrupt and evil persons in society are ‘named, shamed and jailed,’ released his new investigative documentary on June 6 in which he accused Mr. Nyantakyi of corruption and breaches of some football rules.
The two-year investigative work, which was premiered Wednesday, exposed how some GFA officials, referees, football administrators and those in the sports ministry received bribes in various sums to compromise their positions and work.
Key officials among those caught in the corruption quagmire are Mr. Nyantakyi, the Greater Accra Regional FA president Eddie Doku and the Northern Sector FA president Abu.
Mr. Nyantakyi was consequently given a 90-day ban by FIFA forcing him to resign his presidency.
In his officially signed statement issued Monday morning, Mr. Nyantakyi punched holes into the #Number12 investigative documentary by Anas and described same as “shoddy work”.
He argued the documentary was fraught with “cut and paste incoherent presentations”.
In a bid to absolve himself of any wrongdoing, the embattled Nyantakyi said Anas and his Tiger Eye PI team “resorted to twisting the facts through voice over commentaries and subtitling instead of allowing the videos to speak for themselves”
What Anas did, in his estimation, does not constitute the work of a true investigative journalist.
According to him, “An investigative journalist does real-time investigations and not through contrived scheme of entrapment,” he pointed out, and cited Manasseh Azure, rather as a true example of an investigative journalist.
He has thus vowed to legally deal with the matter, saying “I am determined to deal with this matter in accordance with the law”
Anas exposé meanwhile has highlighted the importance of a free press - According to the UK High Commissioner
Source: 3news.com
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***barred word*** Nyantakyi. Now listen to urself. Bcos u hv bn CAUGHT!! Did u not conclude u wanted to use Anas to tackle corruption in the GFA? Now that the thrown ball has bounced back to you, you listen to urself. You are a disgrace!!!
We will support you Uncle Kwesi.ANAS is fake and a Babylon who can easily kill people.What baffles my mind is how on earth can COCOBOD contract you to do an exercise whereas there was an Endless corrution going on within those who gave you that job. Was it a COVER UP ?I still don't believe ANAS Period!
it is true that Anas is a blackmailer and a 419er. but u were too greedy. ur greediness has caused u and u have to blame urself. unfortunately u have no evidence to fight this cr1m1nal bcos he was smarter than u. the public courts have already sentenced u to live in prison so now amount of talk will make them change their mind. even if u bring any evidence they wont believe u. so i will advise u to keep quiet and stop being greedy. as for Anas his end has come now that his pictures are all over the place. they are trying to deceive ple that its not him but the truth is he is the one. do not expect those who know him to confirm that he is the one. they will never do that. they claim Anas comes in different faces and yet he is always in a mask. even my 85 year old granny knew that they are just playing with our minds.
Keep on fighting kwasi.discerning Ghanaians believe in you. I don't trust this Anas video a bit.
He is as arrogant as ever! You just don't know when to give up Kwasi!!! It's sad. You might have had your way around a countless times with your legal jargon but not this time. The disgrace is huge. Stop making it worse. Argggggh!!!
I think the best thing for Kwesi to do is to keep mute and allow sleeping dogs lie. The issue is not about Anas being a true investigative journalist or not. The issue is that what we saw on the video is it something that really happened. For instance if someone caught a thieve and he says pay me this so that I will leave you and you did not pay and he took you to the police station, even though in collecting money from you is wrong he has not stolen anything so what authority are you speaking that he is fake or corrupt.
Why did you accept the $65,000 bribe? You showed that you were very greedy... You talk too much in the video.... your credibility is finished..... You can never win this legal and moral battle.
we support you. fight that corrupt so called under cover journalist.