Louisa Laryea, the wife of astute media personality Israel Laryea, has fired shots at GHOne host Lily Mohamed following her criticism of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
The GHOne host’s criticism stems from the Foreign Affairs Ministry approving a Ghanaian passport to popular American streamer Darren Watkins Jr., popularly known as IshowSpeed.
Louisa Laryea, in her post, told the GHOne host Journalism goes way beyond make-up, skin bleaching, BBL and hair.
She highlighted that journalists must conduct thorough research, interrogate data, and demonstrate sound reasoning before criticising.
“Journalism goes way beyond make-up, skin bleaching, BBL, hair, and fashion. Journalists ought to research, court the facts, interrogate data, and demonstrate sound reasoning,” Louisa Laryea wrote.
However, Lily Mohamed, in a sharp rebuttal to Louisa Laryea’s post, stated: “…That you are married to a journalist definitely does not make you one. The profession is not sexually transmitted.
“I would have very much been open to a discourse with you, but seeing as you have absolutely no substance in that capacity, it would be a complete waste of my time. I hope you take a look at yourself in the mirror the next time you choose to be condescending, as you were with your distasteful post,” she added.
Lily Mohamed, the GHOne host, in her outburst for shoving a Ghanaian passport into the hands of someone who comes his own personal thing and described the minister as unserious.
She stated, “I think that I must add my two cents to it. Let’s get serious as a country. Be like this country, we know be serious. Somebody comes to Ghana, and he is a streamer, he’s putting Ghana on the global map, he’s doing whatever… Then the person comes to Ghana for a day or two, and then you shove the Ghanaian passport into the person’s hands?
You are not being serious. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, you were somebody that we had high expectations of. You shove a Ghanaian passport into the hands of someone who comes, who is streaming, who is embarking on his own personal thing.
Okay, they are coming to jump on our Black Star Square—what has it done to our GDP? What has it added to our economy? Wodi Maya has been putting Ghana on the map globally, and America and the Americans have shoved him an American passport? Even Nigeria, has Nigeria given them passports?”
She added, “You’re given him a Ghanaian passport for what achievement? What has he done for Ghana that he’s come to sit on our jollof, and the moment he steps on the jollof, he walks away? Ghanaians jump under jollof and eat from jollof that is sat on? You are not serious? With the greatest of respect.
Let’s put some value on our passports. Let us put some value on this country. So anybody walks into Ghana ‘Oh, I’m putting Ghana on the map’—and every minute you shove them Ghanaian passports?
She further added, “Meanwhile Ghanaians are queuing for passports—Ghanaian citizens born in Ghana, per the dictates of the constitution, it gives them the rights of citizenship—they’re queuing”.
Meanwhile, Lily Mohamed has since apologised to Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa for her comments on IshowSpeed and the Ghanaian passport.
According to the GHOne host, she conceived that some of her comments were overboard and unsavoury.
Speaking on GHOne TV, Lily Mohamed stated, “I am the lady in the trends, unfortunately, so this morning on GHToday, I shared an opinion on a decision by the Ghanaian government to issue a US YouTuber, IshowSpeed, a Ghanaian passport.
I conceived, however, that some of my comments were overboard and unsavory that I sincerely apologise to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and I also apologise to viewers who were offended”.
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