A deputy communications officer of the National Democratic Congress at Tema West, Mr. Eric Arthur, has advised Ghanaians especially media practitioners to move away from the one-sided posture of always tagging politicians as corrupt on air.
His comment were meant to react to Captain Smart’s three-month ultimatum to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to prosecute persons found guilty of corruption.
On Friday May 26, 2017, Captain Smart, a presenter with Adom Fm led thousands of residents in Accra to stage a demonstration christened ‘Ye Gye Ye Sika and extended version of his on air show dubbed ‘FAB3WOSO’ to compel persons alleged to have been cited in various fraudulent deals to be pursued and the monies retrieved.
“We are giving EOCO three months within which they must work and investigate persons engaged in acts of corruption who are in the documents we have presented to them…,” Captain Smart announced while presenting the documents to a representative of EOCO.
But speaking on Okay FM’s news segment at ten on Monday, the NDC scribe noted that before stepping out to lead the charge, Captain Smart should have first availed himself to the EOCO to be thoroughly investigated before painting some politicians as corrupt.
“There are certainly corrupt people in the NDC and NPP, but some journalists are more corrupt than politicians. Proper investigation must be conducted before some journalists like Captain Smart conclude that politicians are corrupt.”
He bemoaned the practice of constantly placing politicians at the receiving end and tagging them as corrupt.
“Some journalists like Captain Smart are building houses and buying cars through corrupt practices but are now misleading people to demonstrate against politicians. These set of journalists work within a short time but end up buying properties and insulting others. They must stop tagging others as corrupt and must be seriously purged from calling others corrupt”, he said
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Mr Man do u really any evidence, captain has all the documentations on those corrupt officials. so wat is ur problem. maybe u are part of the corrupt pple. shame on u. if captain is doin this to fight corruption, wat r u also doin, instead of encouraging him u rather speaking rubbish. shame on u mr man.
Mr NDC man if you know any journalist who has stolen Ghana's money like the politician report him to EOCO Stop and let's recover our money.
CAPTAIN GO ON AND DO YOUR WORK.WE SUPPORT YOU.ONLY THE ***barred word*** ARE ALWAYS AGAINST YOU. BECAUSE THEY AND AND THEIR PRESIDENT WERE CORRUPT WHEN THEY WERE IN POWER. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE ATTACKING YOU. NDC PARTY DO NOT HAVE SHAME THAT IS WHY THEY ARE ALWAYS BEHAVING LIKE THAT.THE ONLY THING THEY KNOW IS STEALING FROM GHANA COFFERS AND SHARING AMONG THEMSELVES .
NDC WHEN IN GOVERNMENT DEFENDED EVERY EVIL AS RIGHT, NOW IN OPPOSITION AND STILL DEFENDING CORRUPT PRACTICES. HOW NANA ADDO WIN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION WHEN THE OPPOSITION PARTY IS COMFORTABLE IN BED WITH EVIL. WE HAVE ONLY ONE GHANA AND IF IT IS WELL, IT IS GOING TO BE WELL FOR ALL OF US REGARDLESS OF PARTY COLOURS. WHWN OPUNI WAS INTERDICTED, NDC CALLED IT WITCH-HUNTING AND PLAYED EVERY POLITIC WITH IT, THE QUESTION HERE IS DID OPUNI DO WHAT WAS RIGHT WHEN IN OFFICE?,SOME OF US SOMETIMES WONDER WHETHER THOSE NDC COMMUNICATORS HAVE CONSCIENCE BUT LET THEM THAT ONE DAY THEY WILL COME POWER AND MEET NO RESOURCE AND GHANAIANS WILL WATCH HOW NDC WILL RULE.
Why are these ndc folks panickong when corruption is mentioned?
You see the sort of people that we have as communicators, if Captain Smart is corrupt ,bring the evidence. Did he collect any money from the state? has he diverted state money? God will punish all of you.
It will come to an end soon.
You call this government confused which hasn't even coughed but ndc appointees are running to return Ghana's stolen monies back. What did ndc do extra ordinary that NPP are confused about? The create,loot and share or what because you ruled with no policy so what do you mean by confusion or you don't understand the word you used? In real sense of that word ndc is rather confused because you don't even know why you lost the elections in this humiliating spectacular way. You've been coming out with so may reasons to the extent of setting up a commission whose report isn't yet in but you beating about the b*sh with so many excuses. One time your constituencies weren't taking care of,another time the money meant for the grassroots has been chopped by somebody,another other instance,grassroots were neglected,some accusations are arrogance,pomposity and impunity and it goes on and on so who is confused the working government who has rolled out his policies or the bitterness of the opposition ndc? Your party will stay in opposition for long since you are not ready to learn nothing from this humiliation. If I were a member of your party but GOD FORBID I would never talk after this shameful defeat let alone coming here to show my ignor*nce. Ghanaians hate ndc.
Who is captain smart,is he better than the state institutions in charge of corruption, then let us close them down this not what matters Ghanaians are closely watching this confused government so please don't divert our with your cheap populist crusade.
At least he is bold to come out. Is that the reason why Kwesi Pratt and other corrupt journalist are afraid to come out to fight corruption? I don't think Captain smart will bring himself up like this if he is indeed corrupt. If anyone knows or has evidence that captain smart of corrupt they bring the evidence out. He came out to challenge his critics.