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The Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Yaw Boadu Ayeboafo, appears to be on a collision course with the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) over a directive issued by the Association to media houses to blacklist two MPs accused of attacking journalists.<\/p>\n
While condemning assaults on journalists, he described the GJA\u2019s directive as \u201cdysfunctional and unproductive\u201d to the public interest and advocated for the utilization of legal avenues to combat such acts of impunity against journalists.<\/p>\n
He made these remarks during an election reporting workshop for journalists organized by the GJA and the US Embassy Ghana Elections 2024 Project in Kumasi.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me turn my attention to the recent violent, vile attacks on journalists for exercising their primary obligation of informing our people. This has resulted in the equally unilateral decision of the GJA in calling for a boycott of a blackout or blacklist of such people. While the approach is popular, it is dysfunctional. I still hold the position that while it is disheartening for journalists to be attacked violently, the unilateral resolve to black out or boycott the MPs is not the most productive reaction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot fight impunity with impunity. I will support any efforts to ensure that justice is done against all such deviant acts, rather than blackout or boycott. We must follow the rule of law and due process,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
President of GJA, Albert Dwumfour in response, expressed disappointment in the comments of the NMC\u2019s Chair and insisted that the GJA exhausted all relevant law institutions before going ahead with the directive.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see this situation, the media itself, as abnormal, and in abnormal situations, you don\u2019t need dysfunctional or functional minds to treat abnormal situations. You deal with it abnormally, and that is the position of the GJA. I\u2019m utterly shocked that no other person came here to use our platform to chastise us than the NMC Chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a senior journalist and a veteran he didn\u2019t take his time to even ascertain from us what informed the decision, he hasn\u2019t communicated to us. And he just came here to say it\u2019s just dysfunctional? He couldn\u2019t give us functional ways to solve it, and he has run away.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate. The NMC has abandoned its core mandate, and you come and say this because you are heading a state institution, you come and disagree with the entire media body. The system has failed us, the system is not working.\u201d<\/p>\n
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