Presidential Press Corps on National Security Hit List – As “Tigress” and husband frolic in US on State funds

Whatsup News can confirm that the group of journalists assigned to the Presidency at the Jubilee House have been gripped by a morbid fear that the National Security may have been set loose on them for leaking secrets or how they are being treated at the Jubilee House.

When Whatsup News started digging for confirmation of what may appear to be another media muzzling that has characterised the Akufo Addo administration, reliable sources close to the presidency told us that the press representatives attached to the Presidency have been thrown into a state of panic following threats from some top-ranking jubilee house officials to subject them to probing by the National Security in a bid to unearth the whistleblower who may have leaked this information to Whatsup News.

Part of the measures being contemplated, Whatsup News gathered, includes plans to confiscate the personal telephones of these scared journalists and subject them to electronic scrutiny of their contact lists and call logs to fish out who might be talking to Whatsup News.   

This confusion among the presidential press corps follows hints picked up by Whatsup News that President Akufo Addo and his press secretary Eugene Arhin had practically handed the press corps to one Naana Ntiri of Peace FM (also referred to under muffled breaths as “Tigress”).

The press corps are reported to have been virtually barred from asking pertinent questions of the President and his Press Secretary, except they are assayed by Ms. Ntiri.

Ms Ntiri who is currently frolicking with her non-media ‘husband’ on the ticket of the State in the United States, reportedly treats the presidential press corps according to her whims.

For instance, Whatsup News gathered that the browbeaten reporters at the Jubilee House can only cover official activities of President Akufo Addo only if Ms. Ntiri authorises them to. Often, she attends these trips alone and only prepares generic statements for the press corps to use in their various media houses.

Reliable sources who would not want to be named due to the sensitivity of the situation, have told Whatsup News that Ms. Ntiri was particularly handpicked by Eugene Arhin in total disregard for the official hierarchy of the press corps that has a number of institutionalised officers who act on behalf of the presidential reporters.

Last week, the former Minister of State for Tertiary Education, Ms Elizabeth Ohene, questioned the quality of information coming from the Presidency. She also questioned why President Akufo Addo has refused to stage his promised three press encounters per year for him to be questioned on national issues.

“For reasons which I cannot understand, the presidential press corps has ended up nothing like the animal I had anticipated”

“…those guys have been turned into toothless Bulldogs with only one tigress living amongst them. The tigress advises the Communication director on who gets the chance to speak with him (Eugene Arhin) or the President, and who does not deserve to be at the Presidency even when editors have deployed the journalists to cover happenings in the big house,” an insider told Whatsup News.

“I understand that her decisions are final because the President himself gave her that authority over all the other reporter’s in the big house. This was confirmed by Eugen Arhin himself, where he dared any of the members of the PPC to ask the President why Naana must be treated special above everyone,” the aggrieved informant said. The happenings at the Jubilee House re-echoes recent complaints that the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration is anti-media, following the incidence of media personnel that have been violently targeted for reporting information regarded as sensitive to the administration.