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Pratt To Boycott Peace FM
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Pratt To Boycott Peace FM
Managing Editor of The Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has threatened to stop appearing on Accra-based Peace FM’s ‘Kokrokoo’ morning show hosted by Kwami Sefa Kayi, if the station fails to recompose its panel members.
Kwesi believed another co-panelist on the show and Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku, who usually appeared on the programme with him on Tuesdays, was a nuisance to him and would therefore want him to be taken off since he did not feel comfortable when they were paired.A source told DAILY GUIDE that Kwesi, an unofficial member of the NDC communication team, had been fighting tooth and nail to get management of the station and producers of the show to replace the affable NPP young man who seemed be a thorn in his flesh.
The Insight Editor had been lamenting about the Tuesday panel, asking the station to reshuffle it so that he could run riot as he had been doing on pro-NDC Radio Gold every Saturday.
Things seemed to have gotten worse yesterday when Mr Pratt and Awuku met on the show and he attempted to give new twists to a statement issued and signed by the Presidential candidate of the NPP wishing President Mills well on his trip to the United States for medical check-up.
Pratt claimed Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo meant mischief by his statement, with Awuku occasionally interrupting to express his disagreement since, according to him, Nana Addo did not only mean well for the President but also had good intentions towards him.
Mr Pratt complained to the stand-in host of the programme, Nana Yaw Kesse, in-between the show, about Awuku’s heckling.
Just after the programme, an obviously agitated Kwesi Pratt who, according to sources, engineered the removal of Alhaji Bature as host of Radio Gold’s ‘Alhaji and Alhaji’ programme and Ken Kuranchie from ‘Kokrokoo’ morning show on Peace FM, was said to have approached producers of the show in the production room, complaining bitterly and threatening to stop appearing on the show if they continued to pair them since he could no longer contain the young man.
“You people I’m going to stop coming for your programme if you people don’t change some of your panelists; bring Dan Botwe and the rest, don’t bring Sammy Awuku and these guys here,’” an obviously frustrated Pratt was quoted to have told the producers.
A source at the station confirmed that Mr Pratt indeed approached the producers of the show and made those complaints and that it was not the first time he had raised such issues about appearing with Sammy Awuku.
“He felt the quality was below his standard and would have preferred heavy weights like Dan Botwe,” the source noted.
It however appears management of the station is not likely to succumb to the whims and caprices of Mr Pratt since the choice of panelists, especially politicians who appear on the programme on a particular day, is determined by the various political parties and not at the behest of any individual who appears on it.
“So it’s not for him to tell us he doesn’t want Sammy Awuku to appear on the programme and that we should bring someone else or he wants this person to rather be on the show; no. It’s for the NPP to decide whether they want to pull Sammy Awuku off or let him still be on the show,” the source added.
It is however not clear if the NPP would bow to Kwesi Pratt’s demands and take Awuku off the Tuesday show to placate Pratt who has been singing the NDC’s praises.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu Source: Daily Guide/Ghana
