I first heard of Fauster Atta
Mensah on twitter from Spoof site @YesiYesiGhana. At first I thought they had
made up the story so I laughed. Then I watched the video embedded in the
article and I was gobsmacked. Here was a
guy on GTV, the state owned nation, who claimed to be a Nobel Prize Laureate among other things being interviewed. The host of the show took about three
minutes to finish reading his credentials. By then, it was obvious to me the
guy was a fraud. Then they showed pictures of him working at NASA, another with
a robot arm and one in a space suit. I had seen better photoshop done by 15
year olds in under 5 minutes. How on Earth did GTV not see through this? Then
someone sent me a link to the Church of Pentecost’s site another to OMGGhana
all with the same guy. What the Hell was going on? How could anyone be so
gullible?
The video was upload onto the
Ministry of Science and Education’s YouTube Page and later taken down but this
is 2014. The internet never forgets. It had been downloaded many times.
A lot has been written about this
so I will just post the pictures, tweets and facebook post and you can decide.
I don’t know if it was down to lazy journalism or what, you decide.You will find a list of all the webpages he forged on here
Why did GTV allow this to happen. I thought that some of the pictures looked photoshopped. Or is it just me? I'm so confused.
— Kuukuwa Manful (@Kuukuwa_) May 19, 2014
My Dear GTV doesn't have time for mere technicalities like consistency and verification. They just want to wow us. They did 😂😂 @GurlShaaza
— Efo Dela (@Amegaxi) May 21, 2014
@Amegaxi @fantenyimapa The picture in space then the jet one wound me roughly 😂😂😂😂😂😂
— Sir Josh (@jampadu) May 21, 2014
But if Fauster Atta Mensah faked the CNN & NASA interviews then perhaps he faked the GTV one too. Right? Right??
— Kuukuwa Manful (@Kuukuwa_) May 20, 2014
@Amegaxi In the 1st Pic he's not wearing glasses. So... hypothesis -> he took them from the pocket of his spacesuit and wore them 😂😂😂
— Kuukuwa Manful (@Kuukuwa_) May 21, 2014
@Amegaxi even the way he talks! In the hosts intro, he said his father was a professor. But during the interview, he said missionary!
— Jona Ibrahim (@GurlShaaza) May 21, 2014
@Amegaxi @jampadu but GTV blast paa o! Someone must be held responsible for this embarrasment!
— Ms. Hammond (@fantenyimapa) May 21, 2014
Did this with Microsoft Paint smh “@Amegaxi: 2. Picture of Fauster Atta Mensah in 'Space' 😂 😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/eYDYjY9V5B”
— Plato Kelewele (@S_tage) May 21, 2014
@S_tage @Amegaxi @thenanaaba Church of Pentecost wasn't ready. Dude made it to the State of The Church address pic.twitter.com/1LI5iYGvhc
— Kuukuwa Manful (@Kuukuwa_) May 21, 2014
@Amegaxi is this your handiwork @osarpong pic.twitter.com/DoaKf0JXuU
— Roddy™ (@niiroddy) May 21, 2014
@Kuukuwa_ @Amegaxi we are a very responsible media house. I beggiii
— nana aba (@thenanaaba) May 21, 2014
