Alhaji Bature calls Kwesi Pratt a traitor

Managing Editor of The Insight newspaper, Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr.

The Managing Editor of The Insight newspaper, Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has come under a severe tongue lashing interspersed with serious allegations by Alhaji Bature, a die-hard National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist.

Mr. Pratt, a leading member of the Committee for Joint Action (CJA), was described Monday on a private radio station in Accra, Asempa FM as a traitor who Ghanaians should beware of.

To buttress this allegation, Alhaji Bature revealed that the former President, Jerry John Rawlings told Pratt something in confidence but right after he (Pratt) had left Mr. Rawlings' presence he went straight to Kojo Tsikata, the former National Security Coordinator to disclose the confidential conversation to him.

Fuming with rage, the NDC die-hard and former host of the 'Alhaji and Alhaji' radio programme on Radio Gold further alleged that it was The Insight Managing Editor who masterminded his exit from that station.

"What I'm saying is that if there is anybody to attack former President Rawlings it should not be he Kwesi Pratt because he has no moral justification, he is a traitor. As cunning as he is, Pratt after he had succeeded in orchestrating my exit from Radio Gold sent me a text message saying that he wished I resolved the problem between me and Baffoe Bonnie", Alhaji Bature alleged.

He accused Kwesi Pratt being an unrepentant domineering person.

Alhaji Bature's scathing attack on Kwesi Pratt comes on the heels of Mr. Pratt's recent criticism of former President Rawlings over his vituperations on President John Evans Atta Mills.

Mr. Rawlings had indicated that footsoldiers of the NDC were running out of patience due to the lackadaisical way President Mills was governing the nation.

According to Mr. Rawlings, President Mills lacked the revolutionary zeal to rule the nation.

These sentiments attracted very harsh comments from The Insight's Managing Editor who vent his anger on Peace FM (104.3); a private radio station in Accra.

Mr. Pratt said "if former President Rawlings is still demanding the revolutionary zeal that transpired in the country in 1979 and 1982 then who will vote for the NDC?”

He noted that the former President was getting out of hands and needed to be checked.