“I am NOT Dumor and Dumor is NOT me” – CitiFM Presenter

Parliamentary correspondent and regular panel of the Citi Breakfast Show on Citi Fm in Accra, Richard Dela Sky stood his ground to let people who comment on his facebook wall know that he has an independent thought which must be respected and that they must desist from comparing him to the late BBC reporter, Komlar Dumor. He said these in response to comments he received on his facebook wall after posting a quote by Prof Stephen Adai, a former Rector of GIMPA as reported in the Daily Guide newspaper. He posted…

"You live in a country where the President is lying; Ministers are are lying; and everybody is lying. How can a Head of State stand in front of a country in this state of affairs and say the economy is good? It is not good; things are hard" - Prof Stephen Adai.

As usual, the post attracted many response from his friends on facebook at which point one friend wrote “Sky this is your page but it‘s public abi. Tolerance is the watch word! Komla Dumor was buried not long ago”

In a quick rebuttal to set the record straight, Mr Sky said that, for that fact that someone phoned Komlar Dumor on a program and insulted him and despite the insults, Komlar only said ‘thank you’ does not mean he should do same. 

“Therefore, the fruitless moves to blindly compare the independence of my thoughts, deeds and actions to the Boss Player's must be seen in that light. And let me say I will NOT hesitate to throw people off my page if I have reason to believe they don't belong here. And that has nothing to do with tolerance or the lack of it”  - Richard Dela Sky further stated

Moments after this particular post, Mr Sky went ahead and wrote another one complaining about our over politicized democracy where you are not allowed to question those in authority. Check out his comments! Way to go, Mr Sky…we need to encourage people to speak up and ask questions. You are a biiiig man!!