The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has presented five copies of the Right To Information Actl to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to be used as a guide by its reporters.
At a brief ceremony in Accra with the leadership of the GNA, the GJA promised to work with the Agency to mobilise the requisite resources to enable it to do its work well.
The President of the GJA, Roland Affail Monney, who with some of his executives visited the Agency’s headquarters in Accra, explained that abandoning a national asset such as the GNA, would be detrimental to the nation.
The GJA president also used the meeting to congratulate the General Manager, Albert Kofi Owusu on his appointment and invited the GNA to participate in the activities to mark the GJA’s 70th Anniversary, which would be launched on Tuesday May 28, as well as to share in the loss of its former Supervising Chief Editor, Edward Yao Ameyibor.
Mr. Monney said it was important to do everything to assist the GNA to regain the leadership role in the media.
“We have to bring on board, especially the professionals who left the Agency to seek greener pasture when times became rough because the GNA invested in them to gain the value that made them competitive to move on,” he added.
He praised the GNA’s role in growing the GJA, adding that its journalists had consistently served in the national executive in every tenure.
Mr. Owusu, in welcoming the collaboration, said the proposal was in line with what was being planned by the Agency to leverage its credibility with modern technology to lead the media in the path of professional and impactful journalism.
The bane of the Agency, over the period, had been mainly the lack of resources to keep pace with the technological advancement that had been driving modern journalism.
He said, the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, believed in the vision of the GNA to promote the Ghanaian and African Agenda for the prosperity and peace of all citizens, and had thus pledged his commitment to assist in the revamping efforts.
The Vice President, Mrs Linda Asante Agyei, the General Secretary, Edmund Kofi Yeboah, the Public Affairs Officer Mary Mensah, and the Treasurer of the GJA, Mrs. Audrey Dekalu, attended the meeting.
