The Truth Does Come Out with Time

It was only a matter of time before the truth behind Mr. Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ selective targeting of his corruption suspects – and victims – became public knowledge. I first arrived at this credible state of suspicion when the globally renowned investigative journalist unwisely decided to collaborate with the pathologically corrupt then-President John Dramani Mahama to expose corruption in the judiciary. Unwise because as I strongly suspected at the time, Mr. Mahama was deeply mired in his own patent act of criminality involving salary double-dipping by some members of his cabinet who also served as Members of Parliament.

And now, we are being reliably told that the seminal architect behind his hitherto flawless exposés on his subjects of corruption targeting, the Editor-Publisher of the New Crusading Guide, Mr. Abdul-Malik Kweku Baako, was recently caught off-guard in what clearly appeared to be the truth of Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong’s very public accusation that the CEO of the Tiger-Eye PI team of private investigators himself has some horrible skeletons in his own closet, as it were (See “A Dismissed Tiger-Eye Employee Is Behind Fake Photos of Anas – Kweku Baako” Yen.com.gh / Ghanaweb.com 6/1/18).

There are really no “fake” photos of Mr. Anas’ – in Trumpian parlance – being paraded on the Internet, if we are to go by a recent report suggesting that the entire publication of those photographs, alleged by the Assin-Central New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament to be mirror-images or exact representations of Mr. Anas, was fake, according to Mr. Baako whose credibility on this subject cannot be trusted because he clearly has a vested interest in the professional fortunes of the globally renowned Ghanaian investigative journalist cum professionally trained lawyer. We are told that at a recent appearance at major radio station Peace-FM, Mr. Baako, not aware that his microphone was active, confessed in the Green-Room, while waiting to go on-air, that the “culprit” behind the publication of the Anas photographs was a Tiger-Eye employee who was fired about a month ago by Mr. Anas.

We are also informed that the basis for the pink-slipping of the anonymous employee was that he had failed, after repeated warnings from his boss, to take college courses in order to professionally advance himself and guarantee his long-term employment by Tiger-Eye PI. If the foregoing narrative has validity, and we also need to significantly underscore the fact that it came from the proverbial horse’s own mouth, then, really, between Messrs. Baako and Agyapong, who is also a formidable media operative of remarkable substance in Ghana, it could not simply be Mr. Agyapong who is not leveling with the Ghanaian people.

In other words, an employee with Tiger-Eye PI, if s/he is really behind the splashing of the photographs purported to be that of Mr. Anas on the Web, as Mr. Baako reportedly claims, is very likely to know exactly how his/her paymaster looks like, especially if that employee has also been working with his boss for quite a remarkable span of time now, and has been given repeated warnings to upgrade his skills or count himself to be summarily fired from this globally celebrated team of private investigators.

Then also, were at least a couple of photographs not in the exact likeness of Mr. Anas, why would Mr. Affail Monney, the President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), be telling the rest of the general public that his association has contacted the authorities of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and our other security agencies in order to secure around-the-clock protection for one of the most famous and distinguished members of the GJA? I mean, you simply don’t go on high alert seeking protection for a man whose widely publicized identity on the Internet, you also claim to be fake or decidedly nonexistent.

Indeed, as of this writing there was another news report circulating on the Internet, indicating that Mr. Anas had stormed the United States’ Consulate in Accra seeking to secure asylum for his wife and children. I might also significantly add that Mr. Monney, the GJA’s President, does not have an enviable track-record of protecting Ghanaian journalists who run afoul of or have been savaged or given a raw deal by highly placed government operatives. A smell a rat here; and to be certain, the smell of this rat could not be funkier.

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
English Department, SUNY-Nassau
Garden City, New York
June 3, 2018
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