GJA demands apology from UDS

By
Albert Futukpor, GNA

Tamale, Oct 7, GNA – The Northern Regional
chapter of the Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA) has demanded that
authorities of the University for Development Studies (UDS) apologize to a
reporter of United Television (UTV) following an attack on the reporter by
students of the University.

The GJA, in a statement issued in Tamale
signed by Mr Caesar Abagali, its Regional Chairman, and copied to the Ghana
News Agency, condemned the attack on the reporter saying it was “Primitive,
barbaric, callous and backward.”

On Saturday, October 6, 2018, the President of
the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the Nyankpala Campus of UDS
attacked a UTV crew, damaged a motorbike of the crew as well as seized their
camera’s tripod.

Sediq Kilwa, the SRC President of UDS
Nyankpala Campus, supported by the University’s cadet corps and other SRC
executives, also verbally assaulted the UTV crew and other journalists, who
were on the campus on an official assignment.

The UTV crew, including journalists from other
media houses in the Northern Region, was officially invited by the authorities
of the UDS to provide media coverage for the University’s 26th matriculation
ceremony.

Sediq Kilwa and his student friends accused
the UTV crew of reporting a news story on UTV last week, which suggested that
the SRC organized a “sex party” for fresh students, a report, which the
students said was untrue and had damaged the image of the University.

The GJA’s statement called on Authorities of
UDS to institute immediate sanctions against the students as well as take steps
to replace the damaged equipment for the news crew and pay medicals for the
assaulted reporter.

It gave authorities of UDS a week’s ultimatum
to address the GJA’s demands so as not to mar the long working relationship it
has with the media in the region.

The statement also called on the police to
immediately arrest the SRC President as well as expedite investigations into
the incident.

GNA

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