Here is why Anas didn’t investigate President Akufo-Addo over Nyantakyi’s $5m claims
The investigate journalist says he didn’t have $12m to test President Akufo-Addo and other top government officials who were mentioned in the expose’.
Anas Aremeyaw Anas has disclosed that he would have followed up on Kwesi Nyantakyi’s claims that he was going to give the President of the Republic of Ghana $5m from a Tiger Eye agent who posed himself as a foreign investor in exchange for government contract.
The latest piece of Anas on football dubbed Number 12 captured the president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi on camera receiving monies suspected to be bribe and also told an undercover agent who posed himself as a sheikh ready to invest in Ghana that he will lead him to Akufo-Addo should he commit $12 million to sort the President, the Vice President and himself out.
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President Akufo-Addo the ordered the CID to investigate Nyantakyi about the claims, after excerpts of the video was shown to him.
The embattled GFA president resigned from CAF, FIFA and GFA after the Number 12 expose’ video was premiered and is even currently serving a 90-day ban.
Ghanaians have criticised Anas Aremeyaw Anas that he was biased towards the presidency for failing to pursue the investigation to the latter to test the innocence of the President and other top government officials, Nyantakyi made claims he was receiving monies to distribute to.
Anas, however, has responded that he didn’t have that quantum of money to find out if the President would have accepted it or not.
“Let’s put the investigation in context. How did president Akufo-Addo’s name come in? You speak to somebody, he begins to drop names. He says ok, if you want to speak to the man, you must carry an amount of $12milllion. Where was I going to get $12million? It’s not possible; nobody does an investigation with a budget of $12million,” he told Joy FM.
“The fairness in all this is that somebody has made an allegation, are you giving the other party a fair opportunity of answering those allegations? So yes, then we went to the president and he gave us his side of the story, we went to the vice president, we spoke to all the ministers involved to give us their side of the story, then, we can understand the context which the person used to speak.
“It’s up to anybody who thinks he has issues with it to have to do further interrogation. We are all journalists, we have subjects we look at. If anybody feels that that place was not looked at properly, the person has the right, you can also look there. I know how to do a political story and I know how to do a football story. For God sake, it cannot be the same. They are different subjects.”