{"id":716326,"date":"2019-10-04T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/media-not-under-siege-says-nmc-boss\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:15:39","slug":"media-not-under-siege-says-nmc-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/media-not-under-siege-says-nmc-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Not Under Siege -Says NMC Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <strong>Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the National Media<br \/>\nCommission (NMC), Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo, says he cannot conclude emphatically that<br \/>\nthe media are under siege in Ghana as being claimed by opponents of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boadu-Ayeboafo, speaking yesterday<br \/>\nin Accra on the topic: \u201cIs the media under siege?\u201d at the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Ghana<br \/>\nJournalists Association (GJA) 70<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Lecture, said, \u201cI<br \/>\ncannot conclude with certainty or definitiveness that the media are under siege<br \/>\nand that the present circumstance is not conducive to the practice of<br \/>\njournalism in freedom and independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cI think that if you say that the<br \/>\nmedia has come under attack, it is different from suggesting that the media<br \/>\nhave been besieged,\u201d adding \u201cindeed, if you are besieged you would have been so<br \/>\nincapacitated that you are unable to defend yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While admitting that there have been<br \/>\nattacks on the media, he indicated that all of these attacks were unwarranted<br \/>\nin the face of the legal regime that guarantees media<br \/>\nfreedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut does that mean that we are<br \/>\nbesieged? If we are besieged, we will not be able to tell some of the stories<br \/>\nthat we have been telling about the brutalities that have been meted out to us,\u201d<br \/>\nhe added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boadu-Ayeboafo, a lawyer, said<br \/>\nincidents of media attacks like the senseless brutality of Latif Iddrisu and<br \/>\nthe murder of Ahmed Suale although needless, abominable and condemnable, should<br \/>\nbe looked at independently instead of lumping them together and blaming the state<br \/>\nfor such reprehensible acts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere such bestiality has formalism<br \/>\nsuch as the brutality against Latif and the ludicrous demand by the police that<br \/>\nhe identifies the perpetrators, it is fair to blame the state because in such<br \/>\nsituations what happens to the victim are the things that Bishop Desmond Tutu<br \/>\ndescribes as victimizing the victim twice,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that today no journalist<br \/>\ncan be detained for hours before it becomes an issue for public discourse. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why no matter the number of<br \/>\nattacks on media personnel, the media cannot be said to be under siege. For it<br \/>\nis through the same media that the matter of these unlawful acts would be<br \/>\nexposed to enable the victims to regain their independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, no groups or individuals, no<br \/>\nmatter how powerful or influential they are, can emasculate or enmesh the<br \/>\nmedia,\u201d he stressed. <\/p>\n<p>The NMC boss while applauding the<br \/>\ninitiative of the Ministry of Information to develop a manual for the safety of<br \/>\njournalists and media in the country charged media professionals to learn from<br \/>\nthe International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) when it submits that \u201ca story<br \/>\nis not worth the life of a journalist. Journalists must learn to survive to<br \/>\navoid injury, jail, expulsion or any of the other perils of our profession and still<br \/>\nget the story.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo The Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo, says he cannot conclude emphatically that the media are under siege in Ghana as being claimed by opponents of the government. 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