{"id":465041,"date":"2018-02-16T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/how-a-police-officer-heckled-gjas-photo-journalist-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T21:41:08","slug":"how-a-police-officer-heckled-gjas-photo-journalist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/16\/how-a-police-officer-heckled-gjas-photo-journalist-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Police officer heckled GJA\u2019s photo journalist of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 16 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-16<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/78920887.295.jpg\" alt=\"Police Andoh\" title=\"Police Andoh\" width=\"295\" height=\"164\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The Police officer in a scuffle with David Andoh over the latter&#8217;s camera<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518817268_79_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Multimedia Group\u2019s Photojournalist David Andoh was on Friday January 10th heckled at the Accra High Court by a Police officer while he was covering the story of officials of the National Communications Authority (NCA) who were standing trial for allegedly embezzling public funds.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Photojournalist of the year was taking shots of some newsworthy incidents outside the courtroom when the Policeman hounded him.<\/p>\n<p>The Police officer wanted to impede journalists at the Court yard from taking footage of the personalities involved in the National Communications Authority scandal.<\/p>\n<p>In a video captured by an eyewitness, the Police officer was seen forcibly trying to seize the camera of David Andoh. It took an intervention of nearby journalists to restrain the officer who eventually quit the struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Recounting the incident, Mr. Andoh stated that \u201cThere was some sought of altercation at the scene and he [Policeman] violently rushed on some other media personnel, when he saw I had my camera focused toward his direction, he turned his vicious venom on me and ordered I surrender my camera which I declined&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Security personnel at the scene tried to shelve the footage of the altercation recorded by the eyewitness.<\/p>\n<p>Although uninjured the attack on Mr Andoh, adds to the numerous unwarranted attacks on journalists in their line of duty.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gK6XhfVUA-k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 35 updated by: 35 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Friday, 16 February 2018 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2018-02-16 play videoThe Police officer in a scuffle with David Andoh over the latter&#8217;s camera Multimedia Group\u2019s Photojournalist David Andoh was on Friday January 10th heckled at the Accra High Court by a Police officer while he was covering the story of officials of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}