The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has affirmed its commitment to protecting the rights and liberties of journalists nationwide, pledging to combat any form of aggression against them.
Albert Dwumfuor, the President of the Association, declared during an interview that the GJA would persist in directing its members to ostracize any individual who poses a threat to journalists in the country.
This stance comes in response to a joint directive issued by the GJA, Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), Private Newspaper Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG), and Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
The directive urges media outlets across the nation to blacklist Farouk Mahama, the Member of Parliament for Yendi, for allegedly assaulting Mohammed Aminu M. Alabira, a Northern Regional Reporter for Citi News.
Reportedly, Mr. Mahama and his team attacked Alabira while he was covering the disruption of the New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary primary in the Yendi constituency on January 27, 2024.
During the interview, “In fact, this is the way to go. We want to send a signal, a caution that we are not going to relax on our call for our members to blacklist politicians, individuals, or groups who rise against journalists or who impede press freedom and media independence… We will not entertain such acts.”
