The Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has apologised for a story published on Monday, August 25, 2014 edition of his newspaper.
The story headlined: Bloodbath @ NDC elections indicated that a constituency election held at Asokwa in the Ashanti Region by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), turned bloody as some aggrieved delegates took to sticks and stones to protest what they termed as “an attempted ploy to deny them their voting rights.”
Per the publication, it took the timely intervention of the police who were present at the Salisberg Hotel, the venue for the elections to prevent more people from being maimed.
The paper also indicated that “an attempt to elect new officers for the Obuasi East constituency turned bloody when two groups, whose members were battling for positions in the constituency, slugged it out, during which the incumbent Chairman, Francis Coffie, sustained various degrees of injury.
Contributing to a panel discussion on Wednesday’s edition of ‘Kokrokoo’, Kweku Baako said his editors were misinformed but after several checks, they realised that there was no violence at Asokwa.
“The Asokwa report was inaccurate…there was no evidence of violence or chaos. There was confusion, but it didn’t result in violence and so as Editor in Chief, I take responsibility and I offer an unqualified apology and retraction,” he maintained.
He however, indicated that “there were riots in Obuasi and so that section of the publication; we maintain it.”
