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Dear Daniel,
Recently we have followed your write up published on 23rd May, 2019 and titled Angry Basake Youth Wipe-Off Armah Buah's Name From Toilet Building which is skewed towards lies and purported distorted truths and are usually baseless with no single fact.
The gravity of falsehood with which you present your stories like that of the Basake story you published on the Modern Ghana website questions your neutrality, persona and integrity as a Journalist.
It only reminds me of a story of a regular palm wine addict in my village who would bring out his calabash the moment he sees you are in hold of one of those gallons for collecting palm wine.
In fact, he does that without doing due diligence to ascertain whether or not your gallon contains his favourite local wine.
We have often ignored your distortions with the excuse that you must be given the room to learn, invariably, however, it seems this is no mistake but a calculated attempt muddy the waters and send our Honourable MP to the cleaners.
It would be sad to see your career as a Journalist truncated one day when you promulgate stories of individuals and/or organizations without due diligence and they refuse to let it slide and forgive your chicanery.
Let it be noted by your readers that, the Basake toilet facility had Zero funding from the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF). The Assembly only supervised the project.
As a Journalist, if you had taken the responsibility that defines your profession to check with the Assembly, we guess the world wouldn't have been told a lie. A simple exercise by merely checking with the MPAA/DACF would not bring you to the conclusion you arrived at.
Kindly be advised that the basic principle of journalism is fact-checking; you check your facts and check it again. So check your facts before publishing.
More importantly, I'd beseech your reputable news agency to have some checks on your news articles before you bring their reputation to disdain. This naturally suggests that someone was sleeping on duty and has refused to do the needful.
We by this release ask that you write a rejoinder to correct the anomalies you've created through open lies.
Thank you.
Signed
Patrick Noah
Coordinator
(Voice of BUAH, VOB)
