At the National Youth Achievers Awards ten years ago (and two years after graduating from journalism school), I got to meet Ghana’s “sit-in” president. President John Dramani Mahama’s amazing book was included in the package I received after winning a prize for media excellence. When I presented it to him for an autograph, he said these wonderful things.
Even though Manasseh Azure Awuni, a well-known investigative journalist, disagrees with former President John Dramani Mahama on numerous subjects, he claims that Mahama is the most tolerant politician he has ever met.
On Thursday, October 27, 2022, he published a message on his official Facebook page that said as follows:
“Two months later, I celebrated his electoral victory, and four years later, celebrated his defeat. We disagree on many things, but if I were to name the most tolerant politician I know, I wouldn’t think twice about my choice.
At the recent dialogue on the safety of journalists organized by the German Embassy and DW Academy, I listed instances in the Mahama era, where his body language averted what could have been extremely dangerous moments for me.
I also contrasted them with the body language of President Akufo-Addo, who said at the 2019 Bar Conference in Takoradi that the murder of Ahmed Suale could not be said to be an attack on press freedom.”
I don’t ask to be liked or praised as a journalist. That’s what stars yearn for. All that we as journalists ask is that you respect our differing points of view. Added was Manasseh Azure.
He continued, “The law is clear on what to do if journalistic ideas harm your image. Physical assaults are not among the possibilities. Some of the politicians who advocated that if physical assaults were a prescription for reckless speech, they wouldn’t be around to advance that claim. At the National Youth Achievers Awards ten years ago (and two years after graduating from journalism school), I got to meet Ghana’s “sit-in” president. President John Dramani Mahama’s amazing book was included in the package I received after winning a prize for media excellence. I took it to him for an autograph and these were his kind words.
Even though Manasseh Azure Awuni, a well-known investigative journalist, disagrees with former President John Dramani Mahama on numerous subjects, he claims that Mahama is the most tolerant politician he has ever met.
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