After he made a post about the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, which many described as demeaning and courting a lot of backlashes online, investigative and anti-corruption journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has pulled down the post.
Also, he has apologized to the president, stating that some “respectable friends” got in touch and advised him to do so as the post he made was disrespectful.
Announcing this on his Facebook page, Manasseh Azure Awuni wrote, “Yesterday, I wrote a post that said some of the president's pronouncements are not befitting of a man of his age. Some respectable friends who reached out to me said they have found the wording of the post distasteful and appealed to me to do something about it.
“Accordingly, I have pulled down the post and apologise to the president and whoever is offended by the post.”
He, however, stated that the merit of his message still stands.
According to him, the mere fact that the president can be making light of issues such as the mess that the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, was involved in during the procurement of the Sputnik V vaccines for Ghana, and his recent attempts at comparing the work of Daniel Yao Domelevo and the person who took over from him, makes it difficult for him not to call him out.
“I, however, stand by the substance of the post, that some of the utterances of the president are not befitting of him.
“For instance, there's nothing funny about Kwaku Agyeman-Manu's actions to warrant a public joke about it. This week, it was Domelevo's comment,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Source: facebook/ghanaweb
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Mannesseh, you were known to be a prolific and thoughtful provocative journalist.Forgot about Akuffu Addo being the president of the Republic of Ghana. In our culture a well brought up man like you should not be using these words. Express your feelings with out you saying “a 77 year old should not speak like this or that”. You have even let down the so-called friends you claim to respect for the insincere and unapologetic apology you have displayed. We all can recall how respectful and respected you were when you were awarded the best journalist of the year award.You should not let your disciplinarian father down . I mean well for you.
What is the education ladder of this rotten egg and armpit stinging Manassseh is talking about. Look, in Ghana we rewards rotten characters like Manasseh . A person whose armpit smells like any ***barred word***. Journalism is about education , information and entertainment but with this rotten egg guy resorts to character assassination's and yet some uncultured characters in NDC continue supporting him. Insulting the current president is no news because that has been your stock in trade over the years . Again, your current character behavior will affect NDC 2024 elections . Speaking ill President Akuffo Addo is against your long-live on this generation .
What an apology of an apology. This guy is super arrogant.
Interesting post… some respectable friends reached out to you to take the distasteful comments against the first gentleman of the land… Hmmmmm… The son of a watchman… is that what you father thought you ?
You will never stop rendering apologies to him! You have made up your mind to be disrespectful. What you are doing is not journalism but dirty politics which does not benefit nation building! SHAME ON YOU!