Action Movement Youth Volunteers, AMYV has believed the President Akuffo-Addo led NPP government feels good anytime Journalists are being attacked in Ghana.
AMYV were of the view Nana Addo has no interest to protect the media and to condemn media brutalities with all seriousness it deserves for the perpetrators to stop.
A lot of such alleged brutalities and Killing of Journalists under the watch of the Nana Addo led NPP government were carried out whilst other journalists were seriously threatened and the perpetrators were allowed to go unpunished.
Tettey Dometey, President of the AMYV noted that this surging phynominone under the watch of Nana Akuffo-Addo has affected the ranking of Ghana in terms of media freedom in Africa since he took over the reign of this country.
AMYV cited the NPP government looked on whilst they painfully Killed Ahmed Suale of Tiger Eye P. I. led by one of the financials of the ruling government and nothing serious is heard it of the case.
One Adeti, also a journalist in the Northern part of Ghana was chased with the support of invisible government officials, but thank God he (Adeti) managed to escape to the Accra for cover.
As if that was not enough, two citi fm journalists, Caleb Kuda and Zoe Abu Baidoo few days ago had their turn of the beatings from national security personnel who were fully armed with automatic Ak47 and other guns.
Below is the full statement:
INTIMIDATION AND ASSAULT AGAINST MEDIA PRACTITIONERS BY THE GHANA POLICE SERVICE IS PROVOCATIVE: NANA ADDO MUST CALL HIS MEN TO ORDER
A Youth Activist, Moses Tettey Dometey (Bola Ray Jnr) is caution the President to call his “boys” to order because their actions against the media men are gradually washing away the beauty of our democracy.
The NPP government looked on whilst assailants Killed Ahmed Suale of Tiger Eye P. I. painfully with the help of one of the financials of the ruling government and nothing serious is heard it of the case.
Under this government the lives of a number of Journalists were in do much danger to an extent that some were whisked out of Ghana by Media Foundation. Others have to escape lynching in the Northern part of Ghana to Accra for cover. That’s the work of a so-called human right activist Lawyer President Akuffo-Addo.
For instance, in the case of City fm Reporters, Caleb Kuda and Zoe Abu Baidoo. Ghana Police Service is loosing its credibility at a fast pace under this Mother Serpent called President Akuffo-Addo.
unlawful use of force by police can end in death, injury, and devastation. As we’ve seen too many times, in Ghana, sometimes police kill or seriously injure people during arrests fuelled by prejudice, ethnicity or political discrimination.
In countless other cases, police are quick to use force in response to demonstrations. Throughout 2019 and 2020, Ghana police have repeatedly deployed weapons like tear gas and live/rubber bullets in an unlawful way against citizens.
All too often, officers who kill or injure people after using force unlawfully are not brought to justice.
That’s why it’s so important to know what your rights are, and to know what police are, and aren’t, allowed to do, but those right cannot be expressed when we have a tyrant as President in the country.
We need to make sure that police stop using force against the law, and that those who kill unlawfully are brought to account – no more excuses, that can only happen when NDC and John Dramani Mahama take over in 2024.
“Police brutality” is sometimes used to refer to various human rights violations by police. This might include beatings, racial abuse, unlawful killings, torture, or indiscriminate use of riot control agents citizens.
The ability of the media to function effectively as a fourth estate is hooked firmly on the maximum cooperation it receives from the different entities within society at whose service it operates.
Recently, concerns have been raised in Ghana about the spate of assault and intimidation against media practitioners yet, our ceremonial President is sitting unconcerned, and this action appears to hinder the independence, growth, and development of the media.
The safety of the media and the fact that it reserves the right to convey stories about any subject is uncontested in this day and era. However, the question is, to what extent are the media free to discharge these uncontested rights? Under this police service? In fact, current Ghana police service need a reform.
Currently, media practitioners have become targets of increasing physical attacks and assaults in Ghana, and these have recorded astonishing and unacceptable injuries and deaths. Beyond their right to life and secured professional environment, it tends to violate the right of society to information.
Journalists, especially those who carry recording devices to take photos and video shots, are confronted with dangerous security threats because they become targets for security agencies who want to suppress footage of brutalities meted out to protesters. For instance, cameras are either confiscated or destroyed in such encounters.
Largely, journalists are assaulted and sometimes lynched while on assignment.
Ghana beyond being the first country to attain self-rule in Africa, has weaved itself through different governance systems and made strides to stabilize democratic rule since 1992, a quality that has credited the country as a model of democracy on the African continent.
At the core of this historic feat is a vibrant media, whose role has been indispensable to the sustenance of democracy up to today, and thus, the need for them to work in a safe environment should be sought. Ghana was ranked 22nd on the 2015 World Press Freedom, under His Excellency the former President John Dramani Mahama, what an achievement! which placed the country in the “free” category Reporters Without Borders.
In addition, there have been reports of assaults on the media by members of the public including active politicians. In as much as media laws and the political orientation of a country pose some challenges to the establishment of media freedom globally, media analysts in Ghana tend to attribute the country’s dwindling ranking on the World Press Freedom Index to increasing instances of assault in the landscape.
Thus, it appears that the very society the fourth estate represents as its mouthpiece is constantly assaulting and frustrating their efforts in ensuring that society functions well.
The clampdown on media practitioners is an assault on our democracy.
The critical function of the media to inform and educate society, set agenda, and influence public opinion makes it a precarious profession. I do not want to cite examples but the Ghana police service and the President are disappointment to our democratic journalism and the media at large.
Stop sleeping and FIX THE COUNTRY.
MOSES TETTEY DOMETEY (BOLA RAY JNR)
13/05/2021.
By Nationaltymes.com
