Former
Communications Director of the erstwhile Mills government, Koku
Anyidoho has for the first time revealed what really motivated him to
take up politics as a career.
According to him, he drew his
inspiration from the false reports published about his biological father
by Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide, Kweku Baako, with the
intent to downsize him.
Disclosing some facts about the erstwhile
Kufour government officials and their attempts to discredit the
National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho narrated his father’s
ordeal under the former President’s administration in an interview with
Radio Gold on Tuesday.
He disclosed that his father, who was
serving with the Armed Forces as Major General, was retired by
“President Kufour and his cohorts” and sarcastically gave thanks to
Kweku Baako, who at that time, “busied himself publishing falsehood
about my father just to destroy him…the extent to which they spent a lot
of time destroying people in this country.”
“I just couldn’t
take the falsehood, the lies…the deliberate attempts to destroy people’s
careers just because of politics and for political expediency…the lies
that Kweku Baako was publishing about people,” Koku recounted.
Thus he (Koku) said, he went to Ghana Telecom to do research about the publications.
“…I
then realized from my research that the things that he was publishing
about my father were not true… And I said wow! If this is the agenda of
people like Kweku Baako in this country to just run people down, some of
us were going to dig into our trenches and fight back,” he added.
The
former Director of Communications at the Presidency during the
administration of the late President Mills further stated that as a
result, he together with the current Minister of Lands and Natural
Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, and NDC stalwarts formed a Youth Forum
to “fight the battle in so many ways. We had to write. We had to fight.
It was a battle that had to be fought on all fronts because these
people were out to just destroy people.”
This, he said, compelled
him to play an active role in politics in a bid to correct the unfair
treatment and falsehood that was perpetuated by the Senior Journalist. |
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