Managing Editor of ABC News Godwin Asare Bediako has clarified that his media firm was only summoned by the General Legal Council to assist them in investigations on the former Director of the Ghana School of Law Kwaku Ansah Asare.
The Council, under the instruction of the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo ordered the General Manager of the media house to appear before one of its Committees yesterday [Tuesday] with all its recent interviews with Kwaku Ansa Asare regarding the recent Ghana School of Law entrance examinations matter.
Speaking to Citi News after the meeting, Godwin Asare Bediako said that the Council had already called the former director before the Committee over his comments.
ABC News, however, was only called to provide the recordings of the interviews to assist in the probe and was discharged without any issues, leaving the council to continue with the case against Kwaku Ansa Asare.
“The Chief Justice told us that apparently Mr. Ansa Asare had appeared before the Committee and then had said that what he was purported to have said was a little out of context as was said in the actual interview and so the Chief Justice said then they should talk to us as the primary source of the interview so that we provide them with the footage so they can juxtapose what is on the tape with what Mr. Ansa Asare was telling the committee.”
“So we were just there to deliver the footage to assist them in their investigations. So in essence, Mr. Ansa Asare is before the committee, not ABC News. We don’t even know whether we attended as witnesses or whatever because they said they only needed the footage to assist them handle the issue, which we did. So it’s Mr. Ansa Asare who was before the Committee and not us,” he said.
ABC News had earlier published some stories after an interview with Kwaku Ansa Asare, a former Director of the Ghana School of Law.
In one of such interviews, ABC News quoted Kwaku Ansa Asare as saying that: “The General Legal Council is abusing the trust the nation has reposed in them. It was time they are told in plain language that they should stop the nonsense because what is going on is nonsensical. I can’t understand. As a former director of the law school, I have got to say it nakedly as it is. What they are doing is unbecoming and it is time they stopped.”