Kwaku Addo Sakyi-Addo responds to Ekua Kwansema

Dear "Ekua Kwansema",

In your article, you claimed that 10 years ago I "told the world that NPP people are honorable and self-made men and women who would have nothing to do with Ghana's money." According to your article, I went on to say that "the NPP people do not need Ghana's money since they have made more than enough of their own."

You failed to say where and when I said or wrote these statements that you attribute to me.

I do not wish to engage in a discussion about whether the import of the quote is factual or not; ie. whether "NPP people," are self-made or not. That is none of my business.

I just wish to state unambiguously that your attribution of those remarks to me is utterly false. I have neither broadcast nor published such a statement anywhere. Ever.

Secondly, you stated in your article that I was "tutored by the PNDC and sent to Cuba for training."

That is also false. I have never studied in Cuba. I have never been a beneficiary of PNDC or NDC tutorship, scholarship or sponsorship of any shape, size or form. Ever.

I have been to Cuba on one occasion in 1985 for TWO DAYS as a reporter for the Ghana News Agency to do an arrival and orientation story on Ghanaian students who had travelled there to study. I never studied there myself.

Finally, you suggest that I was a beneficiary of largesse from the NPP administration. That is also false. Absolutely nothing I have ever owned or own was handed to me by any government past or present. Ever. Everything I have is the result of honest work by myself and my family.

You clearly do not know me. Sorry, you got the wrong man. Keep looking.

Good luck.
Kwaku Addo Sakyi-Addo