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Presidential Staffer Stan Dogbe seems to be in the media lately for the wrong reasons and for always stepping on the toes of members of the inky fraternity.

He came under flak a few weeks ago for attacking a GBC reporter. Even though that issue has barely seen closure, the Presidential staffer courted controversy again with his comment on facebook concerning an accident involving journalists in the Western Region.

The journalists were returning from President John Mahama’s commissioning ceremony of a new community senior high school at Bamiankor in the region when the accident occurred.

One of the vehicles in the president’s convoy was said to have run into the mini bus full of media personnel drawn from the Western Region and numbering about 10.

The vehicle which bumped into the press corps later run into a a new radio station- Radio 360.

According to a Daily Guide publication on the incident, Benjamin Peters, a Joy Fm correspondent who was among the affected journalists, recounted that the Toyota mini bus was hired for the journalists in the region by the regional communications officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to take them to Bamiankor.

When the commissioning ceremony was over, the journalists decided to head back to Takoradi, and it was on reaching Biaho, near Apowa in the Ahanta West District, that they (journalists) realized that the president’s convoy was behind them and so their (journalists’) vehicle stopped for the convoy to pass, he narrated.

Peters noted that after a number of the vehicles had passed, the one carrying the journalists decided to follow them, not knowing it was left with the last vehicle in the convoy.

“So when our vehicle was about to join the convoy, it was bumped into by the last pick-up in the convoy,” Peters maintained.

Two of the journalists, Nana Yaw Obrempong, a Citi FM correspondent, and one Ebo, a cameraman for Viasat1 TV, were severely injured.

In an attempt to set the records straight, Mr Dogbe issued a disclaimer on Facebook saying that the presidential convoy was not involved in an accident, and any such media report was "irresponsible".

His comment has provoked the ire of many who consider him to be gradually but steadily becoming a loose cannon. 

Speaking to the issue on PeaceFM's flagship morning show "Kokrokoo", the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the ruling NDC, Ade Coker described the Presidential staffer's comment as ‘unfortunate’, and believed he (Stan) should have rather sympathised with the injured.

"...he (Stan Dogbe) should spare the presidency any verbal attack...he should eat humble pie and talk to journalists to calm matters...just call a truce," Ade Coker admonished.