{"id":1232707,"date":"2022-10-24T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/joynews-kwetey-nartey-seth-kwame-boateng-crowned-best-investigative-journalists-in-west-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:04:55","slug":"joynews-kwetey-nartey-seth-kwame-boateng-crowned-best-investigative-journalists-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/joynews-kwetey-nartey-seth-kwame-boateng-crowned-best-investigative-journalists-in-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"JoyNews’ Kwetey Nartey, Seth Kwame Boateng crowned best investigative journalists in West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two journalists from the Multimedia Group, Kwetey Nartey and Seth Kwame Boateng, have been adjudged West Africa\u2019s best investigative journalists.<\/p>\n

They were crowned at the 2022 edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) held in Accra on Saturday, October 22, 2022.<\/p>\n

Their work, Gold Smugglers<\/em><\/strong>, beat competition from a Senegalese journalist, Abdul Cise, and Ghana\u2019s Francisca Enchil for her investigative work on the unlawful NHIS charges in health facilities, titled \u2018Pay or Die\u2019.<\/p>\n

Luv FM\u2019s Emmanuel Kwasi Debrah was also honoured with a certificate of merit in the Telecoms and ICTs category.<\/p>\n

His story titled \u2018Ghana\u2019s institutional apps: Wasting assets?<\/em>\u2018<\/strong> earned him that recognition. Two Nigerians from International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) and a Ghanaian from iWatch Africa took the award.<\/p>\n

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Nigerian female journalist Tessy Igomu from the Punch newspaper was adjudged West Africa\u2019s Journalist of the year.<\/p>\n

The event was graced by media experts, high-level personalities and delegates from sub-regional bodies and civil society groups.<\/p>\n

At the award ceremony, all the 25 finalists received a Certificate of Merit.<\/p>\n

The ultimate winners for the various categories, however, received plaques, certificates and various cash prizes.<\/p>\n

West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA 2022) was supported by the US Embassy in Ghana, US-based William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, MTN-Ghana, UNESCO and Stanbic Bank.<\/p>\n

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The event was also supported by about 65 media partners across West Africa.<\/p>\n

To enhance the capacity of the finalists, all 25 of them will be formally inducted as fellows of the Media Foundation for West Africa\u2019s Journalism for Change Network.<\/p>\n

They will also be offered local and international training opportunities to enhance their capacity to influence positive change in society through journalism.<\/p>\n

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Two journalists from the Multimedia Group, Kwetey Nartey and Seth Kwame Boateng, have been adjudged West Africa\u2019s best investigative journalists. They were crowned at the 2022 edition of the West Africa Media Excellence Conference and Awards (WAMECA) held in Accra on Saturday, October 22, 2022. Their work, Gold Smugglers, beat competition from a Senegalese journalist, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[671,2183,868,8619,1142,9156,3651,21790,10745,7302,916],"class_list":["post-1232707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-africa","tag-crowned","tag-investigative","tag-journalists","tag-joynews","tag-kwame","tag-kwetey","tag-nartey","tag-seth","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}