[ 2016-11-14 ]

Passport Office Will See Me Soon - Anas
Ghana’s investigative journalists, Anas Aremeyaw
Anas has announced that the cry about corruption
at the passport office has come to his attention
and that very soon, he would focus his attention
in the area.

The passport office would soon see me, he said,
amid thunderous applause from the audience who
attended a public lecture he (Anas) addressed at
the Central University near Tema, over the
weekend.

According to him, there was gargantuan corruption
at the passport office “and Ghana needs me to be
there to unravel the seeming unending corruption,
within that part of our economy.”

Anas Aremeyaw Anas has, meanwhile, challenged
Justice Paul Derry to face him before the Panel of
Eminent Committee of Judges constituted by the
Chief Justice, if he is a man.

The 2015 Ghana’s best Journalist of the year
said it was needless for Justice Paul Derry, who
was a former High Court judge to run to the
International Human Rights’ Court, Abuja,
Nigeria, to seek relief, after Ghana’s Chief
Justice, Madam Georgina Theodora Wood, had
constituted a panel of eminent committee in Ghana
to hear his defence.

Justice Derry was among the judges that Anas’
exposé implicated as being corrupt and,
therefore, influencing judgement in cases they sat
on in their courts. Consequently, he was reported
to have prayed the International Human Rights
Courts in Abuja to cite the ace journalist for
using his profession to invade his privacy and
breaching the journalism ethical standards.

Taking his turn at the Central University’s (CU)
annual Public Lecture Series, with the faculty of
Communications, at Miotso, Dawhenya, Anas said
presently, 72 law suits stared at him, but they
would not scare him from chasing and exposing the
corrupt deeds of public officials.

This year’s CU Public Lecture was on the theme:
‘Putting the pieces together: the aftermath of
the judiciary exposé’, and Anas said albeit he
recognized that his work might be at variance with
the ethics of journalism, it was necessary he
defied certain odds to expose corruption.

“My definition and style for journalism is to
name, shame and jail to save the country from the
hands of unscrupulous persons, whose core aim is
to rob the nation of what it deserves,” he
stated.

The masked journalist, thus, said that much as he
would welcome criticisms of his style and
definition, he would not slack affirming his shift
from the academic definition of journalism,
otherwise, the nation wreckers would go
scot-free.
Defending his definition of journalism, he said:
“The repositories of ethics may have their views
but the Ghanaian society differs from theirs,
therefore, the need for my style of
journalism.”

He said he could not watch such nation wreckers go
unexposed if he did not shift from the academic
definition of journalism.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas held that judges in Ghana, over
the years, had not been questioned so well, even
though he said they were not sacrosanct.
President of CU, Professor Kwesi Yankah, lauded
Anas’ efforts of ensuring that corruption was
reduced in Ghana’s socio-economic growth.

He believed that Ghana would, one day, have more
of such brave and learned journalists to uncover
more rots in the country.

Source - The Chronicle

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