[ 2010-09-25 ]

Dismissed ISD boss writes to The Enquiry
Attention: The Editor-in-Chief

RE: Articles in the Enquirer dated Friday 17th –
Sunday 19th September, 2010 entitled “Info Service
Boss Under Fire” written by Godfred Opare Djan and
Monday 20th – Tuesday 21st September, 2010
unattributed article entitled “Embattled Info
Service Boss Exposed – Over Planned Media Assault
on Ministry of Information”

Your newspaper mentions my name in the two
articles under reference above. In the Friday 17th
– Sunday 19th September issue of the Enquirer a
reference is made to “Nee Barnor who was last
Monday, Sept. 13th mentioned in the Daily Guide
newspaper.” I checked the Daily Guide of Monday,
Sept. 13th and there is not one mention of the
name “Nee Barnor” in the Daily Guide of that day.


Furthermore the source of the allegation of
corruption made by the Daily Guide on Tuesday,
September 14, 2010 entitled “Mills Boy Blows
c1.6bn on Xmas Hampers has been attributed to me.”
I categorically state that I am not the source and
have absolutely nothing to do with the Daily Guide
as alleged in an unattributed story in your paper
the Enquirer of Monday 20th – Tuesday 21st
September, 2010 edition entitled “Embattled Info
Service Boss Exposed.” The Daily Guide story is
explicit in stating that the Ministry of
Information and Stan Dogbe provided the
information for the allegations they have made. I
do not sneak information to publications as
cowards are wont to do, the Daily Guide included.

It would not have been necessary for Godfred Opare
Djan and an unattributed writer to print false
statements in the Enquirer about me had they made
the effort to contact me before writing the
stories that appeared in the publications. In the
event this is malicious. It is inexplicable why a
ghost writer insists that I was responsible for
the story in the Daily Guide when there are many
who are privy to audits at the Ministry.

No source within the Information Services
Department can claim that I, Nee Agiri Barnor, “in
an attempt to sway the minds of the civil service
and the Castle, decided to activate the recent
publication on the budget education campaign,
after receiving instruction to hand over from the
sector Minister Mr. John Tia.” This is pure
fabrication. The writer invented this source.

I can confidently assure the writer of the
unattributed story that the standard of proof
required by the Presidency and the Ghana Civil
Service in decision making concerning the tenure
of officers is much higher and more sophisticated
than their publications would have Ghanaians
believe.

The motive the writer at the Enquirer states drove
me to the Daily Guide is the stuff of idle
conspiracy theorists and certainly the product of
inexperienced political operatives. The
publication has rather been very successful in
proving that I am not and cannot be the source of
the allegations mentioned in their publications.

In the matter of the phony ‘petition’ brought
against me by the five Deputy Directors’ Godfred
Opare Djan’s obvious purpose was to misled and
prejudice his readers and any further enquiry into
the allegations. I insist that there should be an
enquiry to clear my name and I am certain the
enquiry will absolve me.

The Editor-in-Chief of the Enquirer is requested
to publish this rejoinder in the next publication
of the newspaper. The rejoinder should be
published in the same position namely the front
page and given the same prominence as the
offending articles. I would also like the Editor
of the Enquirer to retract the stories and publish
an apology to me for publishing false information
about me.

Source - Nee Agiri Barno

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