General News of Friday, 20 August 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• Manasseh Azure Awuni says he is sorry for making a demeaning post about the president• The journalist, however, stands by the importance of what he said• The post has since been pulled down, the journalist wroteAfter he made a post about the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, which many described as demeaning and courting a lot of backlashes online, investigative and anti-corruption journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, has pulled down the post. Also, he has apologized to the president, stating that some “respectable friends” got in touch and advised him to do so as the post he made was disrespectful. Announcing this on his Facebook page, Manasseh Azure Awuni wrote, “Yesterday, I wrote a post that said some of the president's pronouncements are not befitting of a man of his age. Some respectable friends who reached out to me said they have found the wording of the post distasteful and appealed to me to do something about it. “I, however, stand by the substance of the post, that some of the utterances of the president are not befitting of him.

Source: GhanaWeb August 20, 2021 13:30 UTC