Mr. Baba Jamal, a Deputy Minister of Information, has encouraged journalists and other media practitioners to act as catalysts for development rather than creating chaos and unnecessary tension in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should remember that aside your profession, you are a citizen of the country and so must endeavour to contribute your quota through positive and objective reportage towards the development of the country,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n
Mr. Jamal said this at a meeting with media practitioners in the Western Region to solicit their support in moving the country forward towards realising the Better Ghana Agenda.<\/p>\n
He urged media practitioners to criticize constructively and also provide government with ideas and proposals that could be used in harnessing the country\u2019s development.<\/p>\n
Mr. Jamal noted that the new paradigm shift in the country\u2019s democratic growth could not be achieved without the support of the media, adding that, the Ministry was willing to partner every one who had the development of the nation at heart.<\/p>\n
He said that the NDC Government was committed to providing a trusted leadership, stressing, \u201cwe want to remove all suspicion and mistrust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Jamal noted that the ministry was also creating a database on the 10 regions of Ghana for easy access of information on the various regions as part of the Branding Ghana initiative.<\/p>\n
The Ministry, he said, had therefore tasked all regional offices of the Information Services Department to collect data on the various districts across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ministry is currently collecting slogans from all the regions,\u201d he said, and noted that starting next year, the DVLA will emboss these slogans on new car registration to serve as some form of identity.<\/p>\n
The Brong Ahafo, has the slogan -\u2018The Best of All,\u2019 the Western Region -\u2018The Best Comes from the West,\u2019 Eastern Region – \u2018The Best Starts from the East,\u2019 Upper West \u2013 \u2018The Smile of the Xylophone,\u2019 \u2018Upper East – \u2018The Light of the North.\u2019 Some of the regions are yet to produce a slogan.<\/p>\n
Mr. Jamal said he was unhappy about the misuse of national emblems, particularly, the Coat of Arms and urged the media to create more awareness against its abuse so that the symbol does not lose it national importance and dignity.<\/p>\n
Captain Rtd Anthony Cudjoe, Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Sekondi\/Takoradi, told the media not to forget their responsibility of setting national agenda saying, \u201cNow it is serial callers that set the agenda for the media houses.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said media houses also devoted too much time and space to funeral announcements at the expense of developmental stories. He said: \u201cGo to the UK and other places, you will not see funeral announcement in papers, the pages are rather devoted to developmental news\u201d.<\/p>\n
Captain Cudjoe, therefore, called on practitioners to live by the tenets of the journalism profession and support the government in its quest to develop the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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