{"id":461099,"date":"2011-07-14T18:58:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/14\/graphic-should-substantiate-8000-gay-story-baba-jamal\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T18:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T18:58:37","slug":"graphic-should-substantiate-8000-gay-story-baba-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/graphic-should-substantiate-8000-gay-story-baba-jamal\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Should Substantiate 8,000 Gay Story  &#8211; Baba Jamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>A deputy minister for Information, Baba Jamal has thrown his weight behind the National Youth Working Committee (NYWC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that Daily Graphic must substantiate its Tuesday, May 31, 2011, edition which reported that 8,000 homosexuals have been registered in the Central and Western Regions of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Working Committee (NYWC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has petitioned the National Media Commission to dismiss the Editor of the Daily Graphic newspaper, Mr. Ransford Tetteh for what they described as the publication of falsehood about the alleged registration of some 8,000 gays in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to Baba Jamal, Daily Graphic being Ghana\u2019s largest news paper gives credence to the story it carried which also affects the nation\u2019s reputation hence the essence of the call. h<\/p>\n<p>The deputy minister said this on Asempa FM on Wednesday. Baba Jamal stressed that if it is true 8,000 youth have been registered by an NGO, people must know who those organizations are, and the people involved so that steps could be taken to deal with them.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the NDC Youth for bringing the issue up because people cannot ride on the back of democracy to peddle falsehood. He added that as a Deputy Minister, he fully supports the youth working group of the NDC that Graphic should be made to produce evidence to the story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Visit link: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A deputy minister for Information, Baba Jamal has thrown his weight behind the National Youth Working Committee (NYWC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that Daily Graphic must substantiate its Tuesday, May 31, 2011, edition which reported that 8,000 homosexuals have been registered in the Central and Western Regions of Ghana. The National Youth Working Committee (NYWC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has petitioned the National Media Commission to dismiss the Editor of the Daily Graphic newspaper, Mr. Ransford Tetteh for what they described as the publication of falsehood about the alleged registration of some 8,000 gays in Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Graphic Should Substantiate 8,000 Gay Story - Baba Jamal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/graphic-should-substantiate-8000-gay-story-baba-jamal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Graphic Should Substantiate 8,000 Gay Story - Baba Jamal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A deputy minister for Information, Baba Jamal has thrown his weight behind the National Youth Working Committee (NYWC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that Daily Graphic must substantiate its Tuesday, May 31, 2011, edition which reported that 8,000 homosexuals have been registered in the Central and Western Regions of Ghana. 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