Anas’ Approach For Social Change Is Bad And Unsustainable

The investigative work of Anas Aremeyaw Anas to name, shame and jail is not the best and a sustainable way of fighting corruption. His anti- corruption crusade is retrogressive and oppressive. It is likened to the parable of pouring water into a basket and resultant effect being zero instead of a hero.

Former President Obama, did not mince words when he met our august house of parliament and said that we need strong institutions and not strong men. The fight against corruption cannot be sustained if the prescription is antagonism instead of social consciousness and orientation.

One group of people cannot fight it when their modus of operandi is suspicious and cunning. Anas’ crusade is just a single approach to corruption. His approach is self-seeking, window dressing and cosmetic. We must build robust institution to be able to tackle the issue of corruption.

Over the years, Anas has extolled for his investigative works in naming, shaming and jailing people but yet the canker still leaves with us. Social order demands that state institutions must be resourced and be in charge to make a tangible and sustainable difference without interference and manipulation.

Social change cannot be brought about by an oppressive and adversarial investigative journalism by naming, shaming and jailing. This type of journalism is prejudicial and inferior in bringing about a social and moral change. Journalism is to give live, sharp ideas and mobilize action. It is definitely not to kill or destroy people.

His methods and style of investigative journalism is questionably unconscionable and inappropriate. The resultant effect of his works is to create unnecessary anxiety and panic without bringing about the real social and moral change we need.

We must be mindful of how he and his appendages set people up to destroy for their inordinate ambition and parochial interest under disguise of investigative journalism. We must wake up to the reality and demand fairness to his works. We are not save with style of inducement, enticement and entrapment. The yardstick to test people’s integrity and credibility is alien and illegitimate.

Both local and international laws frown upon it. The law requires that you seek consent in recording anyone. People’s privacy are invaded and demonized. He goes round to fix cameras in people’s private homes and places under the pretext of championing a new social order.

This attempt of his investigative journalism is very disturbing and disappointing.

I was very elated when l heard the MP, Kennedy Agyapong calling his bluff and taking swipe at his credibility and integrity. Anas is not God. He cannot claim to be hegemony or paragon of all virtue. He is also susceptible to corruption. Corruption is not only monetary. It includes both social and moral. If what we hear about him is true, then he has no moral right to lead the crusade of anti-corruption. He who comes to equity must come with free hands.

It is only a callous and demonic for a person to set people up for offence and take pride in their mischief. This is not the way to go in bringing an end or reducing corruption in the country. The methods adopted by him is reckless and lawless. Peoples long and hard won reputations is consigned into the dustbins and fall prey to predators. This is very wrong and pathetic. You cannot use criminality to correct criminality.

The major rulings by the court to put injunction in outdooring his investigative are due to public interests and outcry. It is not really based on the substance of his evidence. I look forward to a day when his evidence will be tested by strict prove.

Anas cannot claim to be immaculate and hegemony of all virtues. A lot of innocent people are suffering in palpable silence and thrown in jail due to his investigative works. My genuine fear is if Anas’ style of investigative journalism is not put on strict check many distinguished personalities may suffer suit.

Even the days of Mosaic Law where people thought they had the right to stone the woman to death was caught in poetic justice when Jesus challenged them to stone the woman if any of them had not sinned before. Truth is the function of time. The presumption is those caught on the video camera are innocent until they are proved guilty in a court of law.

People have become so gullible and judgmental because of certain opinion formed about certain public official. The fight against corruption is all inclusive. We all have a role to play. The fight against corruption needs a conceited approach instead of Anas’ singular and selective method.

Anas has a personal interest in what he does. He has a private registered business by name tiger eye pi. Every business organization has a considerable interest in making profit. Premiering his investigative work is not for free. It is for profiteering. I wonder if he pays taxes to his many businesses in the country because the government makes him feel above board.

The test of credibility and integrity is not in the hands of Anas and his cohorts. It is in the hands of almighty God. In our part of world, people lack the capacity to make good judgement by examining the truth. I report to you that Anas’ undercover investigative journalism is sharply losing credibility and prominence because his style has become a cliché and monotonous. It is believed that information churn out to his victims and accusers are flited and coerced.

What you give to your accusers is what you get. Both the giver and receiver stand in a helpless need. We should not make it easy for Anas and his cohorts to enjoy cheap popularity with the use of such dubious investigative journalism to bamboozle people to enrich themselves.

The way he is going has a high tendency of creating ill-feeling and disaffection towards innocent people. Today, it is purported in his latest exposé that the presidency has been maligned and misrepresented in a corruption scandal.

Public interest must not be sacrificed for justice and fairness. The accused must be given the opportunity to evaluate the evidence impugning his or her integrity. I can say in confidence that the accused and accusers can have their freedom if given the needed hearing.

Jailing and shaming people won’t make corruption go away. The cure for jailing and shaming cancerous canker of corruption is not by mean ambush journalism. It will only become a window dressing.

Christian fundamental doctrine is against his style of investigative journalism purposed to name, shame and jail. God abhors such wickedness and tooth for tooth hatred.

It is easier to destroy people’s reputation than building it. Anas’ approach to the corruption fight is not sustainable and satisfactory. We must all rise up against it and have a new social order of dealing with corruption.