Outspoken Ghanaian journalist, Afia Pokuaa, popularly known as Vim Lady has sent a solid warning to party footsoldiers and certain individuals who like to verbally attack journalist when they question them about politics.
According to Afia Pokuaa, she’s had enough, and she is ready to face squarely anybody who insults her.
Speaking during her show on Okay FM, Vim Lady explained that some people believe they are uneducated because they communicate in the local dialect, however, the same people are scared of Afia Schwarzenegger and Kennedy Agyapong because they don’t spare those who offend them.
She went on to disclose that she is ready to verbally attack anybody who finds it cool to insult her.
Watch and read excerpts of what she said below;
This year I’m ready. If you like send your nonsense messages. Like President Mahama said, nobody has monopoly over violence, for us, we will not fight, for us, nobody has monopoly over spewing nonsense. We’ve been quiet for long because we are public figures but for now, if you spew nonsense, we will reply in similar fold. That’s why you’re afraid of Afia Schwarzenegger and Kennedy Agyapong because if you try them, they will not let you go Scot free. We will all go that line.
You Ghanaians who we are seeking accountability and transparency are the same who attack the media. It will get to a point no journalist will ask any questions. They will just keep quiet and watch. Politicians take you people for granted forever. The more you insult Journalist, the more we will shut the hell up and bloody stop talking. When you people watch BBC and CNN and you see Christiane Amanpour and Stephen Sackur and they are drilling politicians, you’re happy about that and say they are bold but when you do same in Ghana, you are told you don’t like the politician.
Do you think if we are not qualified we would have been sitting behind the microphone? The most painful thing is that because some of us speak the local language, you people think we are empty. If we should publish our CVs, like you will know that we are more qualified than some of your Ministers, we are bloody qualified than some of them but you feel that it’s ok to insult us the ones who are seeking for accountability for you. I say the more you insult us, the more we will decide not to speak.”
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Please which JOURNALISTS are you referring to as 'WE'? Talk for yourself. Good journalists will never behave so ***barred word*** and journalism in the gutters like you do. Better learn from the BBC journalists how polite they ask questions. Your village journalism will only be accepted by the illiterate ***barred word*** of your likes. Be vanished, vamoosed, loss, dissappeared, comot and muted.
Who are you after all? Ordinary common talking barrel at a radio station. Get loss with your ***barred word*** talks. No wonder you are one of the disgraced of the Brongs people. Journalist my two feet. Gold digger. YOU aren't aware that you are loosing listeners any time you open that your uncultured mouth?
Afia being yourself is good enough, don't be like anybody else to get a message across. Just be yourself and do what nature judges to be good and right because there is no reward in being all-knowing.
When did rumour peddling, canvassing of uninformed opinion and unintelligible yelling become journalism? Is that what you see in Amanpour and the others you embarrassingly want to point to?
some of us have stopped listening to you long ago....we see pollution anytime you try to make that 'noises' in the name of journalism. I feel worried for those who listen to you.
If you dont speak who cares