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The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has strongly condemned the way photojournalists were made to climb into the bucket of a tipper truck with a monkey ladder, in order to cover Ghana’s 59th Independence anniversary and consider this not only most demeaning but crude. 

The GJA strongly recommend to all media personnel on such assignments to resist any such arrangement they consider a danger to their life and inimical to their operations, security and safety in the future.


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The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) wishes to register strong reservations with the authorities who were in charge of media relations at the parade, held at the Black Star Square to commemorate Ghana’s 59 Independence anniversary.

We unequivocally condemn the way photojournalists were made to climb into the bucket of a tipper truck with a monkey ladder, in order to cover the event and consider this not only most demeaning but crude. .

The rough arrangement was carried out in the full glare of our foreign guests, smacking a lack of respect for local media personnel. It also portrayed a continuous lack of concern for the safety and security of media personnel in the line of duty.

We wonder why those in charge of media relations for the event did not simply consider erecting a riser for the local photojournalists, both male and females, just as they had done for their foreign counterparts.

The GJA strongly recommend to all media personnel on such assignments to resist any such arrangement they consider a danger to their life and inimical to their operations, security and safety.

We wish to suggest that in the planning of such national events, stakeholders must be consulted on issues that boarder on their operations.

SIGNED

Dave Agbenu