Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hanna Tetteh, has come under a barrage of attacks for her tweets questioning the coverage of the Gambian crisis by the Ghanaian media.
The Gambia has been thrown into a state of confusion over an election dispute involving Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and Adama Barrow.
Yahya Jammeh shockingly lost and conceded defeat to winner of the December 1 2016 polls, Adama Barrow, but later rescinded his decision and has challenged the outcome of the election in court.
Jammeh's refusal to step down and Barrow's determination to succeed him as President on Thursday January 19 has left Gambia on tenterhooks with over 26,000 people fleeing to neighboring Senegal.
Hanna Tetteh got herself into trouble when she suggested in a tweet that the local press has so far not done much to go to Gambia to cover the crisis there but most of the information she's received is via international media.
This has angered many twitter enthusiasts who have expressed their disappointment in her tweet.
They questioned her rational for making such utterance and challenged her to direct her thoughts to media organisations sympathetic to her party, NDC.
Hanna Tetteh has come under such attacks in the past especially when she mocked a group of Ghanaians who had organised a very peaceful march to the Jubilee House to present a petition to Government.
She also lost her bid to retain the Awutu Senya West Constituency seat for the fourth time in the 2016 election to NPP's George Andah.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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Hannah please grow. Leave infantile comments for the small girls. Some one find her a bed mate. She is fallowing
Hannah , shutttt the f**k up! You are just a waste of Ghanaian citizenzship space and we don't want to see your uggglly and fooooorking face! Go and stop you're basssstarrd son from starrrrrring in another pooooorly made porrrrrrrrn! Quassshia!
You are out of job right now,why can u go and cover for ghana
Lousy ghana media do not have the courage to send reporters there, all they do is Ndc npp politics. Yet we have some ediots, who are angry with Hannah for this innocuous statement. One example of ghana media peacefm has omitted all those who tweeted in support Hannah and selected five fuulls who disagreed with her cause disaffected for her.
If true that Ghanaians are 'firing" Hannah Tetteh then it is the lazy Ghanaian journalists who are only good at doing NPP's dirty jobs for them.
I see nothing untoward at her suggestion. I only hear her lamenting the opportunity our local media houses are squandering by reporting from home. By going to the hot spots you can offer a different perspective to the story rather than the cut and paste journalism. We swallow hook and knife what aljazeera and bbc report. And when cnn misconstrues information we jump at their throats to correct them. Why don't we just send personnel to the front lines to give that local perspective. Media houses send some reporters to Gambia period.
Madam Hannah, I think you can employ the Montie 3 to do that job...or better still journalists from radio gold