Veteran Journalist suggests Northern journalists to blacklist Gushegu district

A veteran Journalist and Former President of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) in the Northern region for four consecutive times has indicated that the media in the Northern region can decide to blacklist the Gushegu district for what he described as unfortunate detainment of journalist in the area.

Mr. Alhassan Imoro who is now a pensioner, said the affront interference of the professional duties of the media in the country is the highest order of hypocrisy and a stab at championing democracy in the country.

Yesterday four journalists were picked up by Police in Gushegu in the Northern Region when the media were invited to cover a press conference organized by some NDC youth to express their disapproval of government intention to maintain the District Chief Executive for the area.

The four after arriving in the district capital to execute their professional duties were picked up by the police and was allegedly charged as “unlawfully entering into the community”.

The Gushegu and Karaga districts are noted for the detainment of journalist mostly because of their share ignorance about the core role the media play in the dispensation of national development.

In 2011, Isaac Nognya of Metro TV in the northern region and other journalists were detained and their equipments seized in Karaga. 

Speaking during Fiila Day Break News, the veteran Journalist, who had associated with the Ghana Journalist Association for over twenty years, advised the Northern regional branch of the GJA to take the matter up and go to its bottom.

He said the GJA should seek the audience of the Northern regional Police Commander over the matter to express their frustration to him.

Mr. Imoro said the Police in this direction cannot be over vilify because the allegiance goes to the District Chief Executive and probably could be acting base on his directives as Chairman of the District Security Committee.