New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Director Adomako Baafi says the governing party's delay in condemning an assault on a Multimedia journalist was because of a funeral.

He told Joy Midday News, as the Communications Director, he was to have condemned last Friday's incident much earlier.

But funeral arrangements appeared to have distracted him.

The condemnation however came more than three days after the incident at the party headquarters in Accra.

When it finally came, it was replete with several adjectives of outrage. "It is nasty, dastard….and reckless..." NPP Communications Director said.

Adomako Baafi

The firebrand activist Hajia Fati has confessed slapping Multimedia journalist, Ohemaa Sakyiwaa Awehenepa. Fati says she thought she was an onion seller.

Although she has not apologised, the party's communications Director has apologised for the incident.

"We are very sorry. We condemn this act, "he said.

Dissociating the party from Hajia Fati, Adomako Baafi said the incident ought not to undermine the party's standing as a media-friendly political party.

"Everybody knows that," he said and pointed to the abolition of oppressive media laws under the first NPP government in 2001.

He said the party is "ever-ready" to cooperate with the police investigations.

Ohemaa Sakyiwaa Awehenepa

The Communications Director praised the media, crediting it for the development of Ghana's democracy.

"Once again, we apologise unconditionally to the media because without you we cannot do anything."

"You are the fourth estate of the realm…we are very sorry, we condemn this act."

The apology follows sustained pressure by the media and pro-media groups on the governing party to take action on Hajia Fati's unprovoked attack on the Adom FM journalist.

There is a press release signed by acting NPP General Secretary John Boadu condemning the act, stating the party has also began its own inquiry into the attack.