This courtesy call came on the heels of the BBC-TV’s uncovering of a sex-for-grades racket on the sprawling campuses of the University of Ghana and the University of Lagos, Nigeria. We are not given the precise context in which the bloody “revolutionary” Chairman Rawlings made the following clearly media-baiting remark: “Actually, I must admit that this thing has happened to one of my daughters. It wasn’t to do with sex” (See “My Daughter Was Not a Victim of ‘Sex-for-Grades’ – Rawlings Clarifies” MyJoyOnline.com / Ghanaweb.com 11/1/19). Now, let us work our way backwards on the preceding Rawlings’ quote, so as to fully appreciate the glaringly inescapable fact that it was deliberately calculated to impugn the credibility and integrity of the country’s media community. By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhDEnglish Department, SUNY-NassauGarden City, New YorkDecember 30, 2019E-mail: [email protected]*Visit my blog at: kwameokoampaahoofe.wordpress.com Ghanaffairs

Source: GhanaWeb January 01, 2020 14:15 UTC