Veteran journalist, Baby Ansaba, has died

Veteran journalist, Ebenezer Ato Sam, also known as Baby Ansaba, has died Tuesday.

The editor of The Punch newspaper died at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital’s Emergency Centre. The editor, who was in his late 50’s, had been on admission for a short ailment.

Baby Ansaba ended his journalism career under embarrassing headlines after he admitted cooking up stories against the NDC presidential candidate, John Evans Atta Mills ahead of the 2008 presidential elections.

Those lies, he claimed, included publication ahead of the 2008 general elections that then NDC flagbearer candidate J.E.A. Mills was sick and had been hospitalised, and another, later on, that Mills had fallen flat (owing to weak health) on a political platform during a campaign rally.

Prof. Mills, nonetheless, won that election and two years later, in 2010, Baby Ansaba would reveal he regretted his unethical practices.

He would heap praises on President Mills for counting him worthy to travel with him on an international tour, explaining that even the John Agyekum Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party, for which he crusaded to help keep it in power, did not as much as offer him a single trip on any of the president’s over 180 international tours.

Baby Ansaba was previously the editor of the Daily Guide newspaper.