The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has called on the Ghana Police Service to immediately arrest all the ‘hooligans’ who attacked United Television (UTV) on Saturday night and prosecute them promptly.
This was after some men believed to belong to the ruling New Patriotic Party stormed the premise of UTV and temporarily interrupted the United Showbiz show.
They threatened to attack the host and her panel, accusing them of disparaging the ruling administration unfairly.
According to the GJA, the act was both “barbaric and medieval, and it is very much consistent with the building blocks in recent times to establish a state of impunity against the media, one that is worse than the infamous ‘Culture of Silence’.”
“We wish to inform such evil minds, both orchestrators and actors, that the media in Ghana have survived all forms of clampdown in the past, even under dictatorial regimes, and that we shall never be intimidated or silenced by any form of attack,” the statement added.
The GJA called on the government, non-government organisations (NGOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), diplomatic community, international agencies and all well-meaning Ghanaians and people of good conscience to roundly condemn this barbaric act and the masterminds behind it.
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