Anas Lies On ‘Enemies Of The State’ Against The Catalyst

The New Crusading Guide’s Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ new work, ‘Enemies of the State’ captures The Catalyst as having tried to derail his effort at exposing the wanton looting taken place at the Tema Habour resulting in massive loss of revenue to the state. By this, Anas wants the world to think that The Catalyst is an enemy of the state because in the process of his investigation, the paper tried to get in his way in a bid to, as it were, abet crime. This is disingenuous to say the least.

In the paper’s Friday 20th August 2010 issue, we published a story with the headline ‘Kweku Baako’s Spies Busted At Tema Harbour’ with accompanying pictures of two ladies who claimed to be undercover agents working for Anas Aremeyaw Anas of the New Crusading Guide and his boss Mr Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, who were busted at the Tema Harbour whilst in the process of filming activities at restricted areas within the Port.

According to the report, the two ladies, Rukaya Musa and Jennifer Anderson, who apparently were inexperienced on the job, gave themselves and their bosses up cheaply upon their arrest by the Tema Port Security. They mentioned Mr Kweku Baako and Anas as being the ones who sent them.

So who is to blame, Anas who sent out, what can be described as, half-baked undercover agents on a dangerous mission which resulted in their arrest, the two ladies who started crying like babies and mentioning their bosses’ names like the singing canary, or The Catalyst which reported the incident as it happened? If Anas finds the arrest of his spies at the Tema Harbour on 18th August 2010 as something that threatened the success of his work, The Catalyst is not to blame for it. He should blame himself for engaging inexperienced hands that nearly marred the success of his work. The Catalyst will not share in this blame. What we did was to report the arrest of these beautiful lady spies, who at the time claimed he, Anas and Mr Baako had sent them on the errand.

The effort to expose the rot at the ports did not start with Anas’ ‘Enemies Of The State,’ audiovisuals. Long before he came out with the documentary evidence of the unacceptable happenings at the port, The Catalyst and other pro-government newspapers had done extensive publications about the criminal activities of some unscrupulous individuals and groups and companies at the Port.

These newspapers including Daily Post, Daily Democrat, Crystal Clear Lens and others tried to draw attention to the free-for-all looting of revenue at the Port including the Destination Inspection Companies (DICs) and G-CNET among others. But some persons succeeded in creating the erroneous impression against us that we were ‘Enemies Of The Government’ and that we were pursuing an agenda to bring the government down. All kinds of conspiracy theories were formulated against us.

Against this backdrop, any right thinker would realise that Anas’ attempt to implicate The Catalyst in his ‘Enemies Of The Sate’ is totally uncalled for. We will not write-off the possibility that Anas has some other motive for trying so hard to paint this paper black in the public eye.

We think that Anas deserves commendation for his work. His is a good job and he must be encouraged to come out with more of such exposés in the future but not at the expense of the lives of half-baked undercover agents and of course, the credibility of The Catalyst and integrity of its crew.

Editor’s note: We have republished the full text of our story ‘Kweku Baako’s Spies Busted At Tema Habour’ below. Note: This story was first published on Friday 20th August 2010