A heated debate erupted between Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, and Kweku Baako, Editor of the New Crusading Guide, during a live TV show on January 8, 2025. The discussion centered on the military takeover in Africa and Ghana, with both journalists presenting their perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The controversy began when Kwesi Pratt commented on the crowd’s enthusiastic reception of military personnel during the presidential inauguration on January 7, 2025. Pratt interpreted the cheers as a sign of respect for the military leader, Traore, who received the highest praise during the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Kweku Baako swiftly disputed Pratt’s claims, arguing that no military leader has successfully achieved their ambitions while in power. Baako further explained that this is why military leaders are now appointed through democratic processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is not the first time Kwesi Pratt and Kweku Baako have clashed. In 2003, Baako challenged Pratt to a debate on issues related to a coup plot in 1982. Pratt accepted the challenge, stating that it would help establish the truth about the events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kwesi Pratt and Kweku Baako Clash on Live TV<\/p>\n
A heated debate erupted between Kwesi Pratt, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, and Kweku Baako, Editor of the New Crusading Guide, during a live TV show on January 8, 2025. The discussion centered on the military takeover in Africa and Ghana, with both journalists presenting their perspectives.<\/p>\n
The controversy began when Kwesi Pratt commented on the crowd’s enthusiastic reception of military personnel during the presidential inauguration on January 7, 2025. Pratt interpreted the cheers as a sign of respect for the military leader, Traore, who received the highest praise during the event.<\/p>\n
However, Kweku Baako swiftly disputed Pratt’s claims, arguing that no military leader has successfully achieved their ambitions while in power. Baako further explained that this is why military leaders are now appointed through democratic processes.<\/p>\n
This is not the first time Kwesi Pratt and Kweku Baako have clashed. In 2003, Baako challenged Pratt to a debate on issues related to a coup plot in 1982. Pratt accepted the challenge, stating that it would help establish the truth about the events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}