What Is "'Economic' Intelligence Unit"?

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

When the Trokosi Goon-Squad collaborates with the pathologically incurable Wallet Watch Magazine, what one gets is a farcical media fare of quixotic proportions. This is exactly the contents of an article which was published in the opinions column of the MyJoyOnline.com web edition of April 4, 2013. Sensationally captioned "NPP Supreme Court Petition Will Fail - EIU Report," and sourced to the Trokosi flagship newspaper The Informer, the arch-detractors of the 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) risibly sought to accord credibility to a largely, predictably fabricated piece of guff parading as a media scoop, in which the editors and publishers of the Trokosi equivalent of the New York Times claimed that the internationally reputed London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) had predicted the certain failure of the NPP petition against the validity of Election 2012 which is currently before the Atuguba-led panel of Supreme Court judges.

The all-too-Trokosi problem here, though, is that The Informer's editors and publishers appear to have been either too high on some narcotic contraband, or simply too daft and crassly illiterate to have clearly recognized the fact that absolutely no reputable publication exists on the British Isles that goes by the name of "Economic Intelligence Unit." There, however, exists the globally renowned Economist Intelligence Unit. And so maybe the editors and publishers of Wallet Watch Magazine and The Informer take their Ghanaian readers for dupes.

Anyway, what I am drawing attention to here is that if both the so-called Africawatch Magazine and its Trokosi mercenary collaborator, The Informer, cannot seem to get such a basic fact as the media source of their anti-NPP muck accurate, then how can they be trusted by media-savvy Ghanaians to regale them with reportorially objective media fare or content? You see, there is a rather cheap trick here that only the most sophisticated consumers of media fare can readily appreciate and promptly expose. And it is as follows: You see, both the Wallet Watch Magazine and the Trokosi Times' editors are able to get away with such criminal mendacity because the names Economic Intelligence Unit and Economist Intelligence Unit, legally speaking, are not one and the same.

In short, having adequately protected themselves against the possibility of a lawsuit, the Wallet Watch Magazine editor and his Trokosi Times editorial companion are able to fabricate their most idiotic piece of turd, or human waste, without risking any legal action. What is also amusing about the article is the fact that it is wholly based on the purportedly intercepted e-mail missives of an allegedly anonymous cousin of Nana Akufo-Addo's. In legal parlance, this is called a hearsay; but in reality, the purported e-mail missives are wholly composed in the flighty and mercenary imagination of the fabricators.

Needless to say, anybody who has followed the shady journalistic career of the editor of Wallet Watch Magazine knows that this unconscionable grub has established an "enviable" notoriety for routinely fabricating slanderous and libelous tirades and accusations against his former benefactors and paymasters, including former President John Agyekum-Kufuor, and now Nana Akufo-Addo. Previous targets of libelous fabrications have included Messrs. Tsikata and Rawlings, for whom the Wallet Watch Magazine editor-publisher once studiously shilled.

In the final analysis, what matters here, more than anything else, is the credibility of the ideological detractor and/or mercenary accuser, just like the Kpegah case against Nana Akufo-Addo, which promises to definitively obliterate any vestige of credibility that the former may be left with presently, once the truth of the accuser's overriding motivation gets forensically scrutinized by the court.

At this juncture, I don't even suppose for a split-second that even a psychologically and cognitively challenged miscreant like Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia would half-believe the kind of "Shit-Bomb" farcically, shamelessly, and scandalously and unconscionably offloaded here by the Wallet Watch Magazine editor-publisher and his Trokosi Times collaborators.

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*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
April 4, 2013
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