Broadcast Journalist and morning show host for TV 3 Ghana, Johnnie Hughes has bite government again after launching a program to train some 250 Journalist in the country yesterday.
Johnnie Hughes on TV 3 News day today, Tuesday, 11th January, 2022 stated that after capacity enhancement for Journalists, what else will government ensure to put the trained Journalist in so that they can not be influenced? He questioned that has government checked the ownership of various media houses in the country?
According to Johnnie Hughes, NCA laws has not being clear on ownership of media house and people who are owners of various media houses in the country are Politicians. He said that these Politicians have some agenda that they want Journalists working for them to feed the public with so how will that thing be deal with?
He expressed that if government said they want to enhance the capacity of Journalists in the country, how much is the average Journalist being paid at the end of the month? Do they have any category to promote Journalists like how Ghana police Service have different forms of promoting officers to the higher rank?
According to Johnnie Hughes, Journalist are not being paid well but the government is expecting them to do a very high risk job in the country. He stated that a lot of Journalists are afraid to speak up in the country because they are being threatened by their pay masters always to drop stories from print media and other platforms.
Johnnie Hughes questioned government that how are they going to solve that problem? He used past Journalists who were threatened and killed in the country but government has not taken any action against it. He blamed NDC and NPP government and used Nana Akufo-Addo’s statement in 2017 he shared with them on press freedom.
He advised government to bring better policies that will protect Journalists and keep them from the threat that people keep threatening them in the country when they speak truth to power. He told government to work on payment giving to Journalists in the country as they are going to enhance media capacity.
Johnnie Hughes praised government for the program introduced.
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