Kwesi Pratt Jnr (born 7 September 1953) is a
Ghanaian
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
journalist
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and
managing editor
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United States
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of the ''Insight''
Newspaper
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. Kwesi was a member of ''Alliance for Change'', the organisers of the 1995
Kume Preko anti-government demonstration. He is the founder and owner of Pan African Television network in
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
.
Politics
Kwesi Pratt is a
Convention People's Party
The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Convention (UG ...
(CPP) member and has occupied many roles in the party, including his appointment in 2006 as the Publicity committee chairman of the party.
In 2020, he appealed to
government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...
to instill fear into the public to reduce the impact of
COVID-19 pandemic
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since the disease was present, killing people. Kwesi Pratt Jnr continues to put Ghanaian government(s) on their toes, even till date. He recently challenged the wisdom of government giving up Ghana's
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile me ...
resources to foreign mining companies to exploit and leave Ghana with little to no returns.
References
Living people
1953 births
Convention People's Party (Ghana) politicians
Ghanaian journalists
Managing editors
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