Veteran journalist and Managing Director of Citi Fm, Samuel Atta Mensah, has lashed out at Pastor Mensa Otabil after the latter’s stinging attack on the media.
In a Facebook post he later took down, Sammens, as the MD is generally called, hit out at Otabil to diagnose the state of the church in Ghana as he’s done to the media.
Otabil was all over the news on Monday following his sermon last weekend in which he attacked the Ghanaian media immensely, describing them as mediocre and saying he would rather watch animals than watch tv or listen to the radio.
“You listen to our national conversations, you wonder: are we serious? We eat and drink politics… Turn on radio; here [Ghana], there is no political vacation. From the time the vote is cast to the time the next vote is cast, we argue politics morning, afternoon, evening”, Otabil said.

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“I don’t listen to Ghanaian radio much, I will listen maybe for 15 minutes and shut off because it’s very depressing. It will contaminate your soul. I don’t watch Ghanaian TV much. I watch a little – one, two, three – and I say: ‘Oh, nothing has changed, go back’.
“…You [listen to] Ghanaian radio, watch Ghanaian TV and you wonder: ‘are we still here; the mediocrity?’” he wondered.
However, not taking kindly to the critique, Sammens responded on Facebook.
“I hear one pastor is talking about the “sorry state” of the Ghanaian media. Please tell that pastor to tell the whole Ghana on the same pulpit about the state of the church in Ghana today. I will continue with the post next week Sunday.” he wrote.
He later took down the post.