Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng, who describes himself as a lawyer, law lecturer, and the campaign spokesperson for Kennedy Agyapong, says I am inferior.
And what is my crime?
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Yesterday, The Fourth Estate published a story on the free Wi-Fi for senior high schools contract, which the Auditor-General has flagged as wasteful. On the flier, Kwasi Kwarteng, who was the Education Ministry’s PRO when The Fourth Estate published the story last year, featured on the flier for what he said about the publication at the time and what the auditor found.
He got angry at The Fourth Estate’s publication and sent all manner of messages to Evans Aziamoor-Mensah, the journalist who did the investigation. He attacked me in those messages.
Evans told Mr. Kwarteng that I had left The Fourth Estate even before the first story was published, so I had no hand in the publication of the original story and yesterday’s publication that provoked Mr. Kwarteng.
Evans is no more at The Fourth Estate and has no hand in the current publication.
My leaving The Fourth Estate is no secret. On this platform, I have publicly said it more than once. If Mr. Kwartend did not know, Evans told him.
Despite being told that I was no longer at The Fourth Estate in the morning of yesterday, he issued a press statement later in the day, attacking me in it and tagging me in the post.
Under his post, I questioned why he was still attacking me for The Fourth Estate’s publications when he knew that I was no longer there. I told him such pettiness was not befitting of someone who calls himself a lawyer and law lecturer. And his response was:
“Manasseh Azure Awuni your inferiority explains your condescending nature. You have never been able to disagree with anyone politely.”
What is polite about harassing someone you know has no hand in the publication and falsely accusing him?
And apart from the fact that his surname is “Kwarteng” and mine is “Awuni,” I don’t understand why Kwasi Kwarteng believes I’m inferior.
And if a white man had told him this, wouldn’t he have called that racism?
It baffles me why a lawyer, law lecturer, and spokesperson for someone wanting to be Ghana‘s president, thinks it is okay to publicly call his fellow Ghanaian inferior just because I asked him to stop his pettiness and false accusations, even when he knew I was no longer with The Fourth Estate.
Even this morning, he’s still tagging me in his social media posts about The Fourth Estate’s publication. If I were truly inferior, why does he need my name to gain traction?
