Story: Fauziatu Adam
THE Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere, has called on the media to protect the freedoms guaranteed them by the constitution so that they do not suffer a relapse into the dark days of the press in Ghana.
“Those acts of harassment, of oppression of the media belong to antiquity because we have multiple provision in the national constitution, in chapters 5 and 12 of our sacred document, which guarantees the freedom and independence of the media and the right of Ghanaians to free speech,” he added.
Mr Blay-Amihere made this call at the inauguration of the Board of Directors of the New Times Corporation (NTC) at the corporation’s head office in Accra last Thursday.
Inducting the new board, Mr Blay-Amihere charged the media to give equal coverage and equal opportunities to all political parties and their candidates, adding that the NMC enjoined the public media to give access to the president.
However, he added that the same act and ethics of journalism required that they give other presidential candidates their due.
The NTC board is chaired by Mr Clement Vanderpuije with Dr Dzisah Wilberforce, Ms Helena Asamoah-Hassan, Mr Gerald Ankrah, Mr Ebo Hawkson, Mrs Irene Duncan-Adanusa, Major Albert Don Chebe (Retd), Mr J.E. Allotey-Pappoe and Mr Kofi Asuman, the Managing Director of NTC, as members.
He charged the state-owned media to lift themselves above the political divide and politicisation of news as the country approached the 2012 elections.
Mr Blay-Amihere noted that the once lucrative packaging department of the NTC had collapsed, leaving the corporation to depend on its three publications, namely Ghanaian Times, The Spectator and Sporting Times.
“The new board will find out very soon that these three publications are not generating that much revenue that can take care of staff welfare and sustain the very survival of the corporation,” he said.
He expressed the hope that the collective effort of the Board, Management and staff of the corporation would help it revive its fortunes.
“ The board must be sensitive to the concerns of workers as it embarks on this journey of the renewal of NTC to achieve its goals of maintaining industrial harmony,” he said.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Managing Director of NTC, Mr Kofi Asuman, thanked the old board of directors and pledged his support and cooperation for the new board of directors.
THE Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere, has called on the media to protect the freedoms guaranteed them by the constitution so that they do not suffer a relapse into the dark days of the press in Ghana.
“Those acts of harassment, of oppression of the media belong to antiquity because we have multiple provision in the national constitution, in chapters 5 and 12 of our sacred document, which guarantees the freedom and independence of the media and the right of Ghanaians to free speech,” he added.
Mr Blay-Amihere made this call at the inauguration of the Board of Directors of the New Times Corporation (NTC) at the corporation’s head office in Accra last Thursday.
Inducting the new board, Mr Blay-Amihere charged the media to give equal coverage and equal opportunities to all political parties and their candidates, adding that the NMC enjoined the public media to give access to the president.
However, he added that the same act and ethics of journalism required that they give other presidential candidates their due.
The NTC board is chaired by Mr Clement Vanderpuije with Dr Dzisah Wilberforce, Ms Helena Asamoah-Hassan, Mr Gerald Ankrah, Mr Ebo Hawkson, Mrs Irene Duncan-Adanusa, Major Albert Don Chebe (Retd), Mr J.E. Allotey-Pappoe and Mr Kofi Asuman, the Managing Director of NTC, as members.
He charged the state-owned media to lift themselves above the political divide and politicisation of news as the country approached the 2012 elections.
Mr Blay-Amihere noted that the once lucrative packaging department of the NTC had collapsed, leaving the corporation to depend on its three publications, namely Ghanaian Times, The Spectator and Sporting Times.
“The new board will find out very soon that these three publications are not generating that much revenue that can take care of staff welfare and sustain the very survival of the corporation,” he said.
He expressed the hope that the collective effort of the Board, Management and staff of the corporation would help it revive its fortunes.
“ The board must be sensitive to the concerns of workers as it embarks on this journey of the renewal of NTC to achieve its goals of maintaining industrial harmony,” he said.
In a speech read on his behalf, the Managing Director of NTC, Mr Kofi Asuman, thanked the old board of directors and pledged his support and cooperation for the new board of directors.
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