The host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV compared two videos of the said exposé, describing one as the original and the other as doctored.
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Watch: Paul Adom-Otchere’s analysis on why Akufo-Addo’s bribery video is doctored
Controversial journalist Paul Adom-Otchere has analysed the video purporting that President Akufo-Addo took a bribe, concluding that the video was doctored.
Paul Adom-Otchere
In his analysis, Mr. Adom-Otchere said it was uncovered that the video was doctored after the original version was retrieved from the laptop of the author of the video.
“I didn’t know that this can happen in Ghana, I didn’t know that this can happen at the highest level of political debates,” he said during the editorial segment of the programme.
“I dint know that this can happen at the highest level of the nobility of seeking political office after eight elections and over 20 years of democracy.”
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President Akufo-Addo has been in the spotlight in the last few days after a video alleging that he took a bribe of $40,000 went viral.
The said video was aired by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), who tagged the President as “corrupt” and “shameless”.
But reacting to this, Mr. Adom-Otchere said he has been left bemused by the fact that an edited video was the focal point of discussion despite Ghana’s democratic growth in the last 28 years.
“This is the most dastardly, the most ridiculous [attempt] to have happened in the fourth republic and it is painful that it is happening not in 1992, not in 1996, not in the year 2000 [but] twenty years after the year 2000,” he stated.
“Technology has come, Facebook, editing machines, everything, people can just look at the video and determine it’s been edited. Twenty years after the turn of the century, Ghanaian politicians are taking us back to 1951.”
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