REJOINDER: Fake Award Merchants Invade Ghana COVID Fund, Ministry Of Health, Others

Our attention has been drawn to a story we published on September 7, 2020, in which we intermixed the World Diplomatic Federation (WODIF) with an organization called the World Diplomatic Organization (WDO) founded by one questionable character named Fauster Atta Mensah (now Professor John Vinzelts).

Upon further checks and a strongly-worded rejoinder from WODIF, we unconditionally retract that aspect of the story and apologise sincerely to WODIF for the potential damage that the mix-up may have caused to their reputation.

In the said story headlined: “Fake Award Merchants Invade Ghana COVID Fund, Ministry Of Health, Others” we equated an award scheme named the World Diplomatic COVID-19 Eminence Honours fraudulent award scheme organised by the infamous “Dr” KWAME FORDJOUR, aka Dr. UN who claims to be a United Nations Ambassador.

We wrote the following: “Whatsup News has been finding out that late August 2020, the Ministry of Health with the collaboration of the National COVID-19 Trust Fund and curiously, the World Health Organisation (WHO), partnered with a group of opaque organisations claiming to be affiliated to the United Nations to organise the World Diplomatic COVID-19 Eminence Honours which awarded renowned Clinical Psychologist and Natural Therapist, Dr. Brown Osei Konadu and Kenneth Nana Kwame Asamoah, the acting National Chairman of United Progressive Party UPP.”
We further wrote: “The award scheme was organised by World Diplomatic Federation – (WODIF), Institute for Sustainable Environment and Public Health (ISEPH), and Rectitude International Mission (RIM). All of these organisations claim to be affiliated with the UN, but a probe into their background shows that they were mostly founded by the well-known fraudster named Fauster Atta Mensah (now Professor John Vinzelts) who took Ghana by storm a few years ago with the fantastic claims that he was one of the few Ghanaians at NASA who had actually gone into space and had earned a Nobel Prize.”

We hereby retract these paragraphs in the story unconditionally and apologise profusely to the affected organisations for factual errors in the story.