Director of communications at the Office of the Presidency, Eugene Arhin has denied claims making waves that President Akufo-Addo made a female journalist lose her job.
Eugene Arhin’s reaction is in line with claims by one female broadcast journalist known as “Gh Mouthpiece” that she lost her job at Kingdom FM on the directives of President Nana Akufo-Addo.
This was after the Kingdom FM presenter had claimed the president sent a text message to her boss Jonathan Kwame Amofah, to expel her over a video that was putting pressure on the government
However, Eugene Arhin in response to the claims in a Facebook post, on Saturday, October 15, 2022, described the development as “nothing but a fabricated, baseless lie.”
According to him, Akufo-Addo is not on Whatsapp, and neither does he send text messages to anyone, let alone stoop so low as to demand that a journalist be dismissed from her employment.
“I have seen a story on Ghanaweb where a radio presenter, referred to as “Gh Mouthpiece”, claims she was dismissed from Kingdom FM on the orders of President Akufo-Addo. For the avoidance of doubt, this is nothing but a fabricated, baseless lie, simple as that.
“Anyone who knows President Akufo-Addo knows that he is not on Whatsapp, neither does he send text messages to anyone, let alone stoop so low as to demand that a journalist be dismissed from her employment.
“Indeed, I have spoken to the CEO of Kingdom FM, Jonathan Kwame Amofah, who has stated categorically that he has never received a text message from the President before, has never received any directive from the President to dismiss anyone, and goes on to describe “Gh Mouthpiece” as peddling nothing but falsehoods,” he said.
He added, “If this ‘journalist’ wants to trend, she is free to do so, but she should be guided by the ethics of journalism, which are truth, accuracy, and objectivity.”
“As the President has always said, he prefers, on any day, the noisy, boisterous, sometimes scurrilous media of today to the monotonous, praise-singing, sycophantic one of yesteryear.
“He will not be the one to ask for the dismissal of a journalist who criticizes him,” Eugene Arhin explained.
