Akata-Pore, Boakye Djan For NRC? - REJOINDER
--- Akoto
My dear Editor,
To be described as the "biggest fish " of any company one is made to keep can indeed be flattering.
But in the context of the front page lead story in a recent edition of your paper, this description in that story is far from flattery.
The story in question was entitled: "Akata-Pore, Boakye Djan For NRC?"
Your major material facts in the story are either wrong, false, or simply made up.
To begin with your claim that " the ticket for" my "travel to Ghana has already been purchased at the taxpayers expense", is not backed by any evidence in the story. And worse it carries the clear message that I have been bought and illegally too!And I challenge you to publish the ticket and its details now if you have it in your possession.
As you yourself admitted in the last paragraph of your story, I " was not part of the PNDC era but only of the AFRC era". I cannot therefore realistically be expected to team up with any creators and managers of that unconstitutional and hence illegal PNDC and its continuity NDC; and then seek to corroborate their versions of events I have no first hand experience of , to suit anybody.
Your claim that the "NPP Government hopes to use" me "to do as much damage to their number one enemy in the world" does not flow directly from any evidence from the body of the story either.
Against this background, I am naturally appalled that the story could be allowed to escape your strict editorial scrutiny and appear in the front page of your paper and then be given an undeserved respect in its treatment by the local and international media especially the international internet networks.
I shall therefore appreciate it very much if in the spirit of the agreement reached earlier in a telephone conversation between you and me, you would take steps to retract the story and in a manner that will undo the damage already done.
Major Boakye Djan
London
