STATEMENT
Western Publications Limited, publishers
of DAILY GUIDE, NEWS-ONE, YOUNG BLAZERS and BUSINESS GUIDE has taken notice of
media reports linking the company and its Chairman, Freddie Blay, to an alleged
sodomy act.
We wish to state publicly that no staff
member of Western Publications has being involved in any act of sodomy and
neither the company nor any of its employees is under any police investigation
for sodomy or any sex related offence.
According to the unsubstantiated and
largely mischievous media reports carried by The Informer, The Herald and Ghanaian
Lens news papers, the alleged crime was reportedly
committed by one ‘Ohene’. The three papers alleged further that the ‘Ohene’ in
question is a nephew of Freddie Blay.
For the records, Freddie Blay has no
nephew or any extended relation by name Ohene. He also has no nephew in the
employ of Western Publications.
We are aware that the Domestic Violence
and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Ghana Police Service is investigating
a case of sodomy allegedly committed by one Ohene.
Initial reports say the act may have been
committed either at the home of the victim or at a private property belonging
to our company and that the suspect is on the run.
As the case is currently under police
investigations we consider it premature to go into further details especially
when the facts of the matter are yet to be fully ascertained.
As a company, we distance ourselves from
the entire episode and state for the records that we are ever ready to
cooperate with the Police in any way they deem lawful as far as investigating
the alleged crime is concerned.
We consider defilement and more so of a
minor as a serious criminal act and would not do anything to shield crime
suspects under police investigation.
We urge the three media houses
serializing the story to do the appropriate and professional thing by stating
the facts of the case in their reportage and stop dragging Western Publications
and the person of Freddie Blay
into a story they are in no way connected. The one sided version of misleading
reports carried by the three papers smack of lazy journalism and pure
malice.
SIGNED
Halifax
Ansah-Addo
For
Management.
(024 2 186
444)
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