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Private legal practitioner Ace Ankomah has rubbished a front page story by the Ghanaian Lens newspaper edited by Mr. Kobby Fiagbe.


The Ghanaian Lens newspaper on Friday published a story with the banner headline “Meet Akufo-Addo’s Manifesto Team”. According to the story, the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party has settled on Mr. Gabby Asare Otchere Darko, Nana Asante Bediato, Mr. Ken Ofori Atta, Mr. Franklin Cudjoe and Messer Ace Ankoma as his manifesto team for the 2016 elections.


But in an interview with Moro Awudu on the XYZ Breakfast Show, the legal luminary and leading member of Occupy Ghana, Mr. Ankomah described the story as baseless, rubbish and speculative He added, although he doesn’t read the Ghanaian lens newspaper, he finds it quite reprehensible for that newspaper to fabricate such a story.


The story also indicated that trusted sources within the Akufo-Addo’s network say that manifesto team has been assigned various responsibilities and members are expected to submit their work to the presidential candidate, through Gabby by the end of the year.


However, Messer Ankoma debunked that erroneous assertion and questioned the journalistic standard and principle of the editor, and asked him to check his facts before publishing stories.


The editor, Kobby Fiagbe who was on the other line during the interview, maintained the story is credible because he has cross checked his facts before publishing the story.