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| Anas Aremeyaw (right) and Hon. Agyepong (left) |
For the past few weeks, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central in the Central Region, Hon. Kennedy Agyepong has been accusing investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas for being corrupt himself.
The MP made these attacking comments prior to the premiering of Anas' latest corruption investigative piece, Number XII, also dubbed Money Ball.
One important thing, which The Manual believes is worth mentioning is what the MP stated: "when someone raises accusing finger on a corrupt fellow, that person must also be clean".
This, The Manual thinks is a fair comments. Aside this, we are unhappy with some portions of Hon. Agyepong's comments.
In one of his submissions, he showed some pictures purported to be Anas and entreated his sympathisers to "beat" and "slap" Anas and his boys wherever they see them as he (MP) mentioned that he was capable of paying any amount of money in case any casualties result from the beatings.
The Manual sees this as a high level of threats that must be dealt with by the security agencies accordingly for the safety of not only Anas, but all journalists.
Notwithstanding, Anas has provided concrete evidences on the people he accused of being corrupt in his latest exposé.
More than 60 premier league referees, including their female counterparts and some match officials were seen collecting bribe prior to the commencement of league matches.
One of such referees is the hardened referee Samuel Suker who awarded an 83rd minute penalty to Hearts of Oak against arch rivals Asante Kotoko after the ball hits the back of kotoko's defender Ahmed Adams. This was during the 2017 Ghana Premier League. He took Ghc1500 and a goat to influence the game as Hearts won 1-0.
The return leg of this fixture in Accra was not left out as referee Dally Gagba was also given his share to influence the game in Kotoko's favour. Eventually, he awarded a similar dubious penalty to Kotoko when the ball hit the shoulder of Hearts of Oak's defender.
We believe that these great evidences by Anas is worth commended at all levels as referees and match commissioners who should ensure the sanity of the game are rather destroying the beauty of the game.
On the other hand, Hon, Agyepong has on many occasions, mentioned that Anas himself is not a "saint". He added that he also has evidences showing Anas collecting bribes from some agents which he has titled the videos "Who Watches the Watchman". That is also good.
In order to have a level playing field and also to vindicate Hon. Agyepong on his numerous allegations against Anas, the Manual will entreat the MP to show those evidences accordingly.
Already, he has promised to show it on his TV network -Net 2 on Friday and we wait patiently to see those videos.
Meanwhile, The Manual was extremely shocked after watching Anas' documentary, Number 12 today at the Accra International Conference Centre. These evidences cast a slur on Ghana's top flight football league.
It also tells that eventual winners of the 2017 Ghana Premier League -Aduana Stars, may not deserve it. Those evidences were only the ones Tiger Eye, -Anas'company went undercover to trap those referees.
How would we know what the other clubs did with these same officials without the influence of Tiger Eye? And yes, it is very possible.
The Manual believes that these videos will change Ghana Football forever. It will never be the same again.
Below are pictures of the show.
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