It has come to the attention of the Youth Wing of the NPP the reckless manner the pro-NDC press are trying to introduce irrelevant issues into the politics of the country. For some time now some pro- NDC media outlets are engaging in dirty media propaganda against the Flagbearer of the NPP Nana Akufo-Addo.
Instead of these newspapers to be concerned about the current growing instability in the educational sector, they prefer to divert the attention of discerning Ghanaians on their complete failures on the education front. The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) are on strike but the NDC has no antidote to these problems because they are bereft of ideas making academic work at our Universities come to a standstill. Also worrying is the fact that students who have gained admissions into Senior High Schools do not know their fate and are presently stranded at most of the schools.
The Monday 18th October edition of the Daily Post filed an unnecessary story about someone dying in the NPP Flagbearers office. An incident that happened according to the paper many years ago, was presented as if it happened recently.
It must be placed on record that, the issue of someone dying in Nana Akufo-Addo’s office happened during the first NDC administration in 1995, and the deceased died of a natural course as established by a pathologist. There were Police investigations which found nothing sinister about the death of Mr. Justice Ghann. Today the pro-NDC press is trying to resuscitate a dead issue for propaganda purposes.
Instead of the pro NDC press discussing the numerous problems facing Ghanaians, they are engaging in diversionary tactics and spewing their political nonsense to hide the abysmal record of this administration.
The recent invectives from the pro NDC press impugning the integrity of the NPP Presidential candidate, Nana Akuffo Addo’s personal life ought to stop if the politics of personal attack is to be avoided in our body politics. We will be rougher should we begin to attack their leaders. We are running out of patience about this lack of respect and decorum in the media landscape and might be forced to respond to these stories appropriately.
Finally we believe it is time the National Media Commission and the Ghana Journalists Association and other stakeholders to call on the pro NDC press to set high Journalistic standards of decorum and mature political debate for the country. Their continuous silence on the barrage of attacks and insults by the pro NDC press is not helpful to the development of the media landscape in our country.
Signed
Anthony Abayifaa Karbo
National Youth Organiser
Source: GhanaWeb
