Host of Newsfile, the news analysis programme on JoyNews, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has been crowned the best journalist of the year by the Millennium Excellence Foundation.

The Board of the Foundation, under the auspices of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, selected Mr. Anyenini for the award under its Constitutional Honours.

It was a gathering of people who have significantly contributed to Ghana’s constitutional democracy.

Samson Lardy Anyenini, who is also a private legal practitioner, was one of the 19 awardees selected by the Board for their various roles in protecting the sanctity of the 1992 Constitution.

“My view is that awards are good, but they come with expectations. So, I appreciate that for this very faculty, you can see it’s a very serious board of eminent people and to have decided that among the 19 people that they will award, I will be recognized in the manner they have done, sends a signal to me,” he stated.

Mr. Anyenini says the recognition means there’s an expectation to do a lot more.

He assured that as long as he remains where he is, he will do his best to hold the country’s leaders accountable and live up to the constitutional injunction in Article 162(5) of the 1992 Constitution.

‘All I can say is that I have been committed to what I do and I will continue to be committed to it,” he strongly indicated.

The Executive Chairman of the Margins Group of companies, Moses Kwesi Baiden, walked home with the coveted “Man of the Year Award.” Mr Baiden’s company prints the Ghana card, and they have been in the business of printing cards for close to three decades.

The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei Opare, made the 19-member list of awardees. She was adjudged the Politician of the Year.