The unprofessionalism of Ghanaian journalists on the alleged “Agyapadie” document

This Wednesday morning of 31 July 2024, one of my WhatsApp contacts forwarded a video clip on a discussion of a supposedly “Agyapadie” document by a Ghanaian TV programme presenter and a well-known guest called KKD.

This guest claims to be a professional journalist. He is a known critic of President Nana Akufo-Addo and his NPP government for both good and bad reasons.

Barely had I watched the video when I typed the following message to the sender – “I have my reservations about the document in question. Who crafted it and for whom? How did it become public knowledge? Where was it obtained from? Could it be a diversionary tactic for campaign purposes? I can’t tell but still inquiring before I add my voice. Can you volunteer information?”

He then forwarded to me the video below.

After watching the video, I texted the following message to him. “Yes, I believe so. How could they harbour such plans, document them, risking the fact it could possibly become public knowledge one day? Thank you. I will then add my voice at the appropriate time. How I wish I could find the video on the Agyapadie as discussed by the two journalists to be able to share my views about it”

I needed the YouTube link of the video to be able to publish it alongside whatever candid view I would be expressing. Luckily, I found it after a few minutes search on the YouTube.

The sender texted me as follows. “I was sure it was part of NDC’s grand scheme to undermine and destroy NPP, so I quickly checked YouTube to verify, and this is what I found”. What he found is the version by Okyehene Osagyefuo Nana Amoatia Ofori Panin.

I replied, “Yes, the NDC are capable of executing such nonsense to deceive the Ghanaian public”.

Now, let Ghanaians understand that the said Agyapadie document is not any genuine document authored by the alleged Akyem mafia with the ulterior motive of holding themselves supreme, richer, and most powerful over all other tribes in Ghana.

Assuming without admitting that it was authored by them, who among them crafted it and for whom? Where was it kept and how did it manage to come out from wherever it was into the public domain?

Who from outside the Akyem family laid hands on the document, then made it available to the public? What was the intention of the person revealing the document to the public? To expose the diabolic nature of the alleged Akyem mafia to cause them public disaffection and hatred?

If KKD, that bitter destructive critic of President Nana Akufo-Addo and his NPP government were a professional journalist, he would have asked himself thorough critical questions, answered them intelligently as an apolitical professional journalist before coming on air to share his views about it?

Will the Akyem people in government, or at Akyem Abuakwa Palace, write such a document knowing that if it were ever to leak, it will go against them?

Could they not execute such an agenda, if they really entertained such idea, without putting it into writing? Did they document the idea to serve their offspring and descendants as a perpetual plan to be followed to continually make the Akyems great and superior to all other tribes in Ghana?

How did KKD and his host lay hands on the document? Did they get it from the palace archives of Akem Abuakwa or from a saboteur within the family?

I quite remember when the NDC once circulated a similar document intended for the destruction of the Ashanti businesses. They attributed the authorship of the document to President Akufo-Addo and his alleged Akyem Mafia. That document was widely circulated to create tension within the Ashantis and the Akyems in government. Nevertheless, it turned out to be a hoax. It was crafted by the NDC to create Ashanti hatred towards President Nana Akufo-Addo and his family members in government to finally collapse the NPP government and party.

They are doing it again with this fictional, nonsensical and a figment of imagination Agyapadie document.

The NDC have got their members, agents and assigns like Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD) and the programme host among many other journalists in Ghana to spread their fake news.

It is only people who don’t reason and have a brain the size of peanut that will believe KKD and his ilk.

The document is pure nonsense crafted to deceive the Ghanaian electorates and public to vote for Mr John Dramani Mahama and NDC come election 2024.

For their failure to produce credible policies and programmes but balderdash like the Agyapadie issue, the NDC will lose the election. They are worthless as a party to be voted in to rule Ghana.

The proud and audacious son of Kumawu/Asiampa will take the NDC and their rogues on by exposing their fabrications and shallow-mindedness unbefitting of politicians aspiring to rule Ghana.

Fellow Ghanaians, please be open-minded to approach issues with levelheadedness.

Shame on the perpetrators and perpetuators of such silly fabrications.

I shall be back, God willing.