General News of Friday, 19 July 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

Ghanaian Journalists doctored video to blackmail me – Nigerian professor speaks

Controversial visiting Nigerian Professor to Ghana, Augustine Nwagbara who was relieved of his duties by University of Education, Winneba (UEW), insists the video which he was captured in making inciteful comments was doctored by some Ghanaian Journalists to blackmail him.

According to him, the said video was leaked by Ghanaian Journalists working with a Ghanaian Private TV Station after the said meeting with the Nigerian community

He described the treatment meted out to him in Ghana as hell revealing that till date he is yet to receive his dismissal letter from the UEW.

“They said I was sacked, then dismissed, which was another wrong word to use, as you cannot dismiss some body on sabbatical in your country As I speak with you, I have not received any letter of sack or dismissal whereas various factions of the letters are already in circulation in Ghana and on social media”, he revealed during a courtesy visit to Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) in Abuja.

It would be recalled that a video went viral in which he was heard urging his colleagues to employ the media from Nigeria to tear Ghana up.

He is quoted as saying “The Nigerian community here is bad image for Nigerian we can take it back through the press, we can reverse. We have powerful media stations, channels broadcast all over world. Emm, well AIT has a problem now, NTA does many others, and there is online, active online social media they plot in Nigeria.

Let them come look at what we have said here today. Let them come here and run documentaries of the experiences on Nigerians and blast it all over the world. In three days Ghana will respond [clapping at the background]. I have been a media person, I have been a media person.

You cannot be here and suffering. Let the leaders get our media guys come here and cover what has been happening. Go to the student community go to the business community go to everywhere, come to the embassy. Go and confront the officials with the information and within one week, I can tell you part of what is happening. I’m sorry to say it but this is within us.

The present government in Ghana came on the grounds of Nigerian bashing. I have listened to things some of their top leaders have said all over the world in big major places. We did not take it back sir. If we take back they will sit up. So media strategy. One; Use their own media but you know everything I have been a press man there is no absolute truth in the media. The truth is even history is truth as presented. Let us use our own media and get back to them.

Let us see live cases, let our media with this stories we want to go to their prisons to see Nigerians of course they will turn you back, we broadcast it you do by the time you are through run series of documentaries on Nigerian relations of Nigerians”