The Brong Ahafo Regional branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has condemned the attack on some of its members by persons believed to be supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the Golden Jubilee Awards Ceremony to climax the Brong Ahafo@50 celebrations in Sunyani last Saturday.
The association has also resolved to boycott all official functions of the RCC, the municipal and district assemblies, as well as the NDC, until the culprits are arrested and brought to book.
A press release signed by the Regional Chairman of the GJA, Mr Ian Motey, and the Secretary, Mr Larry Paa Kwesi Moses, and issued in Sunyani yesterday, pointed out that the assault on Messrs Dennis Peprah, a reporter of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani, Paa Kwesi, the Regional Correspondent of TV Africa, Michael Boateng, the Regional Correspondent of the Ghanaian Chronicle, Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah, the Regional Correspondent of the Daily Graphic, and Motey was “unwarranted and should be condemned in no uncertain terms”.
According to the release, the GJA’s own investigations had revealed that the assault happened in the full glare of ex-President Flt Lt. J. J. Rawlings, who is also the founder of the NDC; a Member of the Council of State, Mrs Cecilia Johnson, ministers of state, as well as some municipal and district chief executives in the region.
The release pointed out that the GJA had identified some of the culprits, including drivers of some of the cheif executives, but said for security reasons it wanted to withhold those names.
It alleged that the attackers snatched two mobile phones and a wristwatch from Messrs Ampratwum-Mensah and Paa Kwesi while the wallet of Mr Peprah and a reporter’s notebook were forcibly taken from Mr Motey.
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