{"id":176917,"date":"2015-12-24T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=176917"},"modified":"2015-12-24T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T19:36:10","slug":"stan-dogbe-calls-bbc-journalist-useless-over-bus-branding-reportage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=176917","title":{"rendered":"Stan Dogbe calls BBC Journalist \u2018useless\u2019 over bus branding reportage"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unhappy Presidential Staffer, Stan Dogbe, has taken offence at a publication by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), over the murky bus branding saga that cost Ghana Ghc3.6million cedis.<\/p>\n

BBC Africa, on its twitter handle (@BBCAfrica) posted an image of the bus showing President Mahama and former Presidents both dead and alive, and captioned it \u201cGhana\u2019s Transport Minister resigns after nearly $1m spent on these posters of the President.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is unclear what may have angered Mr. Stan Dobge who, in response, tweeted \u201c@BBCAfrica useless story written by a possibly useless journalist\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Stan<\/a><\/p>\n

The offensive tweet followed this one \u201cHow many posters of the President do you see there? And you couldn\u2019t find out what the project was about?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Stran<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Dogbe has been criticized for supposedly reacting offensively to journalists who he feels may have misrepresented events concerning the incumbent government and the President.<\/p>\n

In one of his altercations with a journalist who works with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), he personally destroyed his recorder which was later replaced by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”n0vRCPB9SR1aHnUyKDJXQbk0Xtwkk359″]The Media Foundation has since led a campaign that got nearly 150 journalists to petition the President on the conduct of Mr. Dogbe and the need for him to be sanctioned.<\/p>\n

However, nothing has been heard of the petition.<\/p>\n

Government has been heavily criticized for spending as much as Ghc3.6million of Ghana\u2019s oil revenue on re-branding 116 buses, at a time when the country is facing a difficult energy crisis among other challenges.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Transport, Dzifa Attivor has since resigned over the scandal, whiles Government has ordered a retrieval of Ghc1.9 million from the Smarttys, the company which executed the contract.<\/p>\n

This was after the Chief of Staff , Julius Debrah, ordered an investigation into the deal following the huge public outcry.<\/p>\n

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\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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