Letter From The President (XV)

More ink than brains

Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents,
Last week I was very optimistic that I would be attending the awards ceremony of the Ghana Journalists Association. Am glad to say that I changed my mind on Saturday morning and decided to enjoy a warm cosy evening with Mama Tess in a town somewhere in the Volta Region.

Even though I really wanted to score another first (i.e. becoming the first sitting Head of State with a lot of time to spare in the company of a group of ‘intelligence averse’ journalists) I think I made a quality decision to stay away from a controversial awards programme. Thank God I had someone who gladly offered to read my speech for me. If you remember the contents of my letter last week, I said that journalists can be so intelligence-averse and events just before the awards ceremony proved me right.

First, there was the confusion over the selection of award winners. I guess Mr. Mudor of JOY FM did a very good job by courageously exposing the rot at SSNIT and he deserves to have received his award as journalist of the year with no controversy.

More ink than brains

Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents,
Last week I was very optimistic that I would be attending the awards ceremony of the Ghana Journalists Association. Am glad to say that I changed my mind on Saturday morning and decided to enjoy a warm cosy evening with Mama Tess in a town somewhere in the Volta Region.

Even though I really wanted to score another first (i.e. becoming the first sitting Head of State with a lot of time to spare in the company of a group of ‘intelligence averse’ journalists) I think I made a quality decision to stay away from a controversial awards programme. Thank God I had someone who gladly offered to read my speech for me. If you remember the contents of my letter last week, I said that journalists can be so intelligence-averse and events just before the awards ceremony proved me right.

First, there was the confusion over the selection of award winners. I guess Mr. Mudor of JOY FM did a very good job by courageously exposing the rot at SSNIT and he deserves to have received his award as journalist of the year with no controversy.