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John Dramani Mahama, the opposition National Democratic Congress presidential candidate, has vowed to protect journalists’ freedom to carry out their jobs.
Highlighting the vital role that journalists play in the nation, former President Mahama lamented the current struggles that Ghanaian journalists face and pledged to turn things around if he were to take office again.
“The best thing you can give the media is to give them the freedom to do their work. Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened under this government. Media people have been hounded, some have run into exile, some have been threatened, their lives have been threatened and indeed some have paid the ultimate price like Ahmed Suale did,” the former president recalled.
The former president said he would work to ensure the hazards journalists go through are minimized.
“You can trust that as a person who is a member of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) myself, I am not the kind of person who would hound the media and so one gift I can gift to you is the freedom to do your work without anybody intimidating and harassing you,” Mahama promised.
Ghana comes up in the 62nd position out of 180 nations in the World Press Index 2024. The state of press freedom in the nation has been called “problematic.”
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
