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[ 2014-09-02 ]

Statement: Pursuit of professionalism has its rewards - Otumfuo tells journalists
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY HIS MAJESTY OTUMFUO OSEI TUTU
II, ASANTEHENE, AT THE ANNUAL AWARDS NIGHT OF THE
GHANA JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION (GJA) AT THE BANQUET
HALL, STATE HOUSE, ACCRA ON SATURDAY, 30TH AUGUST,
2014.

It is a privilege to be your Guest Speaker for
this year's Annual Awards ceremony. You will
appreciate that it is not easy for us to accept to
travel from Kumasi for such an event, but we have
had no qualms whatsoever about making the journey
for tonight because of the importance we attach to
your Association and the respect we have for the
media fraternity.

You will also appreciate, I hope, the little
difficulty a Guest Speaker for an occasion like
tonight has. This is a celebratory event, a happy
occasion when the cream of your profession gather
to celebrate their achievements for the year, to
let your hair down and forget the cares and
tension of the past while you share and enjoy the
plaudits of your peers.

You necessarily require a convivial atmosphere,
with good wine and good food to compensate, if
only momentarily, for the grinding toil of the
years gone by. The last thing you need on such an
occasion is a killjoy who will dampen the
atmosphere with any unpleasant thoughts.

The trouble is that your invitation inferred that
in addition to good food for the palate you craved
for some food for thought from your Guest Speaker.
And food for thought, as you perfectly know, does
not always come coated in honey. So I hope you
will understand if what we say also secretes some
bitter taste in the mouth. I take comfort in the
knowledge that I am in the midst of a hardy bunch
of journalists who are steeled to grapple with
reality.

So let me waste no time first in congratulating
this year's Award winners. The media landscape in
Ghana continues to be vibrant and I guess
competition for honours this year has been
intense. To be adjudged worthy of honour by your
own peers in such climate must be truly
fulfilling. But you must not stop there. There is
a global media network out there looking for
talent to nurture and to grow. You have had the
example of the late Komla Dumor, an award winning
journalist of the GJA who went on to become a
trail blazer with the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) but whose life was tragically
cut short during the year. Let the Komla example
inspire you to continue searching for excellence
in your craft. I address this not to the award
winners alone, but to all of you, members of the
Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) to continue to
strive to improve and to aim for excellence. You
may have missed out this year but there are oceans
beyond for you to conquer.

Yours is a unique profession and you do not need
the service of a public relations consultant to
sell yourself to us. Every day and practically
every hour, you are in the public gaze. We read
your output. We listen to you. We see you. If what
is offered is good quality, we see and feel it and
we applaud. We also see through the uninformed and
untutored, and observe the arrogance and pomposity
of those who see their media opportunity as
conferring on them unbridled power to abuse and
vilify.

The pursuit of professionalism has its rewards but
the shelf-life of the arrogant and untutored will
be short. For, in this competitive environment,
the public will be the judge and they will judge
with their wallets. We will return to this theme
later but let us take a step back, to consider the
theme for this year's award night.

The letter of your president Mr. Monney inviting
us to be your Guest Speaker tonight conveyed some
lofty sentiment. On the theme chosen for tonight's
ceremony, he explained: "it has been chosen in
furtherance of the GJA's efforts at contributing
to building a strong and stable democracy in Ghana
and to motivate the media to inspire national
development through monitoring national projects
and programmes and in holding public officers
accountable." He added: "It is the Association's
belief that the theme will inspire the nation to
recommit itself to work to have the media as
partners rather than adversaries in development."

I hasten to add that the chosen theme for this
ceremony is: "using development journalism to
discern and defend the national interest."

Mr. Chairman, I deduce from this that as an
Association, you have formed the professional
judgement that there is a need to define or
redefine the national interest within the
democratic framework and you have concluded that
"development journalism" offers the short cut
towards this "national interest" around which all
of you, and all of us, can coalesce. At the risk
of being over simplistic, the Ghana Journalist
Association (GJA) want us and its members to place
development at the heart of the national interest
and to join together--media, politicians, civil
societies--as partners in pursuit of the goal of
development. I consider it of the utmost
importance that you who are the torchbearers of
freedom of expression should be spearheading the
search for what I will see as a national consensus
on issues of development.

From the dawn of civilization, humanity has been
moulded by the pen and the sword. The sword has
conquered territories and nations but it is the
pen, the ideas flowing from the pen that have
shaped our thoughts and enabled us develop the
systems of governance marking the difference
between us and other mammals. We have grown to
believe that the pen is mightier than the sword,
although I have had to wonder why then any moment
Jerry John Rawlings fires even a verbal missile,
all the ink in our pens dry up. Unless of course
we want to believe that there is something in our
Jerry which makes him even mightier than the sword
and the pen.

Still, as the pen advanced civilization and helped
shape great nations, the press came to be
recognised as the fourth estate of the realm. To
place it in today's context, it means that the
press joins the rulers or executive, the
legislators who make laws and the judiciary who
interpret and enforce the laws, in a quadrangle
for sound governance. In essence, the role of the
press has been marked out as every inch as
important as the makers and enforcers of the laws
and every inch as critical as those who exercise
executive authority over us.

I am not sure that even you, hardy professionals
that you are, fully comprehend the awesome power
this gives the media. True, you may not desire any
mandate from the votes of the people as executives
and legislators, but that happens every four years
as the case may be. In contrary, the press, are
the permanent interface between the people and
their rulers. Through you the people can speak and
are spoken to by their rulers on a daily basis.

The rulers themselves can do nothing without you
because without you, they cannot reach out and
connect to their people to maintain their
confidence and support. Your job is to inform,
educate and entertain and as you go up the ladder,
you analyse, counsel and admonish. It is a truly
awesome responsibility that can only be discharged
through sound education, intellectual rigour, a
high sense of responsibility and total commitment,
tinged with a dose of modesty.

You may not desire your mandate from the votes of
the people as legislatures and executives do, but
the foundation of your authority is no less
profound. It desires and rests upon the solid rock
of history, and the immediate moral foundation
encapsulated in the sanctity of truth. The first
thing you learn on entry into your profession is
"facts are sacred.

Comments are free." It tells you that the sanctity
of truth is the foundation of true journalism. If
you sacrifice the truth, you not only destroy
reputations but I suggest to you that you crucify
the media profession itself and endanger the
society to which you belong.

We will do well to remember this in the context of
the pursuit of accountability in public life which
is the lofty goal of every good journalist and
which you seek to pursue under your agenda for
development journalism. Accountability is not a
pseudonym for vilification and wanton destruction
of integrity. It is a desirable exercise to hold
people to account for their actions, based upon
facts, for their failings, based on facts, and for
their judgements, based upon facts. Not every
citizen is able to gather facts but the
journalist, by his training, is supposed to be
equipped to ferret out information, to know where
and how to find it, distill it, verity it and
present it in the form that we ordinary folk will
understand.

When you depart from the path of truth and replace
conjecture for facts, when you conjure figures and
allow others to manipulate information for the
purpose of destroying others, you not only destroy
the reputation of your victims, you turn your
profession into a gamblers playground, undeserving
of the place of honour it occupies in the realm. I
need not bore you, because I am sure you are fully
aware of the gravity of the consequences attendant
to such misuse of the media. Nations have gone to
war on the basis of wrong information. Governments
have fallen because of wrong information. Powerful
companies have collapsed on the basis of wrong
information. Individual reputations have been
ruined beyond redemption, and many moved to commit
suicide on the basis of wrong information. Is
there anyone here who will want to belong, or want
his or her child to belong to a profession that
can bring such consequences upon society?

I am here tonight because I know that is not the
kind of media you want to represent and I am
persuaded that you are as concerned as anyone else
about the lapses of a few elements that have had
the potential to bring the whole media into
disrepute and what you are doing represents
another effort in the direction.

To be fair, I think, in spite of some lamentable
lapses, the press in Ghana has overall done a good
job in helping to shape the history of our
country. The press was a spearhead in the struggle
for Ghana's independence and the press has been an
active participant in the process of change from
the first to the fourth Republican constitution.
But while it has been a positive partner for
change, the press has not established the same
credit when it comes to sustaining the change and
building an enduring foundation for the nation. It
seems we have been so besotted with the notion of
change that no sooner have we effected one than we
began casting our eyes around for the next one. In
effect, we have become change hunters rather than
nation builders.

I believe this is what has dawned on you now which
has informed your choice of the theme for this
year. You want our journalists to shift their
focus and identify something they can grasp as the
national interest and you think that can be found
in development journalism.

Mr. Chairman, there may be some cynical voices who
may question your motives against the backdrop of
the partisan divisions in our society. My response
is, it is precisely because of the rancour,
tension and confusion generated by the excessive
partisanship of national issues that we now need
to pause and define areas of national interest to
which we shall all be committed as Ghanaians
rather than as members of political parties. This
should not be seen in any way as a step away from
the national commitment to multi-party democracy.

History tells us that notwithstanding the inherent
conflict of ideas, democracy has never been a
barrier to any nation's pursuit of its national
interests. Indeed, the history of every great
nation, most of all the nations whose democratic
ideals we are trying to covert, has been a story
of their unyielding endeavour to project, promote
and defend their national interests.

As our diplomats and students of international
relations know too well, the cornerstone of
British and indeed Western foreign policy is the
notion that there are no permanent friends, only
permanent interests.

Those interests are the national interests derived
from their common values and above all their vital
economic interests. Who can deny that where those
interests are at stake, there is no Conservative
or Labour, no Republican or Democrat, no SDP or
FDP. There is just the British, the American or
the German interests and those interests prevail
regardless of who occupies 10 Downing Street or
the White House.

By contrast, in Ghana, even the myth that the
Black Stars unites us has been shattered by the
shambles of Brazil and we are now more than ever
consigned into our petty political pigeon holes of
NDC and NPP with others moaning from the
peripheries. I suggest to you that we are in
danger of misapplying the multiparty system to the
detriment of the nation and your initiative
provides an appropriate platform to begin the

quest for change.
We should forever bury the supremacy of the party
and install and entrench in our minds that the
nation is supreme and the national interest
overrides everything else. So back to the old
question, what constitutes the national interest
for us? We may tum to the Derivative Principles of
the Constitution for guidance. But from that broad
canvas, let us focus on the ultimate issue of
national interest.

Mr. Chairman, I have alluded to what history tells
us about the great nations of the world. It is
pertinent for me to add that throughout human
history, the only interest that has really
mattered to them and to all nations alike is the
economic interest of their people. Across the
length and breadth of the planet, the quest for
the development of individuals and of nations, is
what has propelled mankind forward. It was the
quest for development that drove the great
discoverers and adventurers of ancient times to
battle with treacherous uncharted seas. It was the
driving force behind empire building. And it is
the quest for development of China that has sent
millions of Chinese citizens across the world,
into the remotest villages of Africa, in the
search for raw materials. President Bill Clinton
captured it accurately in his famous campaign
slogan: "it's the economy, stupid".

So for a country like ours, the ultimate national
interest can only be the development and growth of
the economy, how we manage and grow the economy to
provide for the things our people need, food on
the table, a roof over our heads, to provide for
the education of our children, health care for the
sick, and above all, jobs for the people. You are
therefore right on the need to focus on
development. But we need to be careful here.
Development is not about a list of infrastructural
projects that can be easily monitored. Development
is a product of the policies pursued by our
governments. We cannot have sustainable
development without sound sustainable economic
policies. So we cannot presume to focus attention
on development only by monitoring the
implementation of projects without coming to grips
with the broad policies driving or hindering
development. It stands to reason that while
project monitoring may serve a useful purpose, on
its own, it could also be an unintended diversion
from the crux of our problem. Therefore, you can
do no better than brace yourselves not only for
the impartial monitoring of projects but also for
the objective analysis and evaluation of public
policies affecting the economy.

In seeking to define issues of national interest
relative to national development, the national
currency will have to be of high priority. We
could not have forgotten so soon, the period in
our history when a devaluation of the cedi was an
instant signal for a military take-over of
government. Thankfully, we have buried the past,
and over the past decade or thereabouts, we have
had the happy experience of a stable cedi
underpinning the remarkable growth of our economy.
Sadly, the wheels have turned once again, with the
economy in decline and the cedi wobbling.

Because the cedi is so crucial to the stability of
the national economy, it is imperative, in my view
that we remove it from the realm of partisan
politics and place it as an issue of high national
interest. This should require us, to strife to
insulate the cedi from political and other
pressures likely to undermine confidence and
reinforce the institutional framework

for defending and protecting it in the market
place.

We should have no inhibitions about following the
practice of the major countries of the world in
identifying foreign affairs and defense as areas
of national interest requiring consensual policy
formulation. But for me, there are two other areas
that must be elevated to the national interest
pedestrian. I speak of education and what I
consider the most unpardonable shame not only to
the nation, but to the African continent, namely
the filthy environment and the consequential
health hazards to which we are exposed.

As you are all aware, from the day of our
ascension to the Golden Stool, we proclaimed
education as the centre-piece of our reign. We
launched the Otumfuo Education Fund and through
that and other interventions, we have educated
over 7000 Ghanaians, from the primary to the
tertiary level. We have supported deprived schools
with infrastructure, and have initiated schemes
offering incentives to teachers to motivate them
to work in the most deprived areas. We have done
this because of my passionate belief that
education holds the key to the development of the
nation. Yes, I am the King of a Warrior Kingdom,
but as I declared on our last Akwasidae Kese, the
only battle we want to fight is the Battle of
Brain Power and the only battleground for that is
education. So our commitment to education is total
and we have been encouraged by the fact that every
government during our 15 years has similarly
highlighted education as its number one priority.
Indeed, all our statistics show that education
consumes the largest chunk of the national
budget.

And yet, results of our examinations such as the
W.A.S.S.C.E. results just released leaves me
wondering whether we are getting real value for
the huge investment and effort in education.
However one looks at it, a 50% failure rate is not
and should not be acceptable to the nation. It
tells me that we can no longer ignore the turmoil
in the education landscape with teachers and
government and employers daggers drawn almost as a
matter of routine. Clearly, the turmoil is having
an adverse effect. And clearly, the victims are
our children.

Beyond the strife and turmoil in labour relations,
there is an even more fundamental crisis. In the
short time that I have been Asantehene, the
education system has changed three times, from
three years of senior high school to four years of
senior high school and back to three years of
senior high school. In fact, if you calculate the
delays in their initial enrolment because of the
clash of pupils from the four-year period, and the
time lost to them through teachers strife, the
present crop of pupils only had two and a half
years to cover curriculum which had been covered
over four years previously.

Our children are the victims today. But in the
long run, it is the nation that will suffer. For
if we fail to lay the right foundation for our
children, we cannot hope to raise the skilled
manpower, the men and women with the brain power
to lift the national economy from the depths to
which we are stuck.

This is a matter of the gravest national interest
and some crucial decisions ought to be taken to
put an end to the reckless changes which only
demoralise and confuse the educational
establishment.

Mr. Chairman, even as we enjoy this happy evening,
we cannot fail to spare some thought for the
plight of our sister countries battling against
the new dreaded disease called Ebola. Our hearts
go out to our brethren in the affected countries
in the sub-region. But while we have been spared
thus far, we should not forget we are already in
the grips of another wasteful even if easily
preventable disease, cholera. We all know the
source of the disease. It is caused by our failure
to respect the normal simple rules of hygiene.

After nearly 60 years of independence, Ghana is
being swallowed in filth and murk. We have created
a haven for breeding mosquitoes. Man and cattle
breed together in the heart of our cities. We
exude pride in ourselves not just as Ghanaians,
but as the torch-bearers of African renaissance.
How does that pride square with the mounds of
refuge in the heart of our cities? And have we
dared to count the cost of this shameful neglect.
Even beyond the threat of ebola and the tragedy of
cholera, the main cause of death in our nation
remains malaria and malaria is caused simply by
mosquitoes which we are breeding ourselves.

What makes this more tragic is that all available
evidence points to the fact that our forefathers
and mothers lived in a cleaner environment than we
are. The local authorities before us maintained
rigorous standards of sanitation control and our
mothers, who had not had the benefit of the
education we have enjoyed, knew why they had to
keep their homes and environs well kept, well
swept and devoid of stagnant pools of water. Are
we saying that what all our education and social
advancement have done is to condition us to
abandon our sense of responsibility for our own
health and well-being?

And what of our authorities? Our forefathers did
not have the benefit of science arid technology as
we do today. The fire is such ample technology
today that nations have turned their refuse into
wealth. While creative nations turn their refuse
into wealth, we prefer to let our people die from
the refuse.

Mr. there is no tenable excuse for this negligence
in Ghana or in any African country and my message
today, as Africa confronts the twin threats of
ebola and cholera, is for our leaders and policy
makers to put on their thinking caps.

We need to place the issue of sanitation as a
matter of national concern.

Indeed, I suggest we consider a National Emergency
for a Clean Environment to bring together, the
local authorities, health authorities, education
authorities and our traditional rulers to find
practical ways of saving our nation from the
health hazards brought by our insanitary
conditions.

It is not for me to comment on policy challenges
that have given rise to the weakness of our
economy, the fate of the cedi and the
consequential tension we feel around us. But there
is one thing on which I simply cannot stay silent.
It is something more vicious and more corrosive
that is gnawing through our system and which
threatens to derail much of what Ghana has
achieved. It is called corruption. You know what
it is. I know it. The President of the Republic
knows it. The chiefs of national security, the law
enforcement agencies know it. You, the media, know
it.

And yet, the more we have known, the worse it has
become. Among my people, from businessmen to
farmers to simple folk seeking places for their
children, there is mounting despair. The community
of international business and finance is
expressing concerns that Ghana may be drifting to
the tipping point of irredeemable corruption. Is
there some salvation on
the horizon? Not if you listen to the political
class and the debates in the media. For them,
corruption is not the issue. The issue is who is
better at it, which party has been more corrupt.
It tells us that we are in danger of coming to
accept the inevitability of corruption as our way
of life. And there is plenty of evidence that
points in that direction.

As you will appreciate, I have had several
encounters with various people with complaints
about corruption. There was this one who felt he
had become the victim of an obnoxious public
officer and was going to teach him a lesson. How
was he going to do it? Simple. He had prepared a
hefty envelope which he was going to give to a
senior police officer to induce him to arrest and
"put the fear of God into him".

When I reminded him that he would be committing a
crime by trying to bribe a

police officer, his answer was Otumfuo, how am I
going to have redress if I don't do it? That's the
only way now.

Then there was the other who was certain that he
had been cheated out of a contract through
corruption. He was determined to expose the
corrupt process and for that, he too had prepared
another substantial envelope for a media man who
had promised to help him. I asked him whether he
was going to bribe the media man to expose the
bribery of

the public officer.
Oh no, he said, the envelope for the media man was
just "solidarity". Musical artistes who have
approached me tell me that in order to have their
music played on radio, they have to hand out, not
bribes, but "payola". So you see, we are all on
what I call a corruption

carousel, whirling around with the music.
And yet this is not something to trifle with. It
is destroying business. It is undermining national
governance. It is frustrating individuals. And it
is eroding international confidence in our
country.

We must accept that it is part of the problems
afflicting the economy today and while we ponder
over policy options, we must cry out for some act
of courage to tackle the scourge of corruption,
not on the peripheries but at the top.

Mr. Chairman, where does all that leave the great
hope for "development journalism"? In the face of
the elements of corruption, functional
deficiencies and resource shortages, can we still
put our faith in the media to pursue the national
interest espoused here? I believe we can if all
concerned are prepared to take some tough
measures. First, the media sector will do well to
embrace some major structural changes to improve
their viability and lessen their vulnerability to
extraneous pressures. I recognise that in a
multi-party democracy, the media, particularly
newspapers, will reflect the views of different
political parties, but in a curious way, the
interests of democracy are better served by the
media loosening ties with political parties and
attracting more independent minded expertise.

It is a matter of regret that the media scene has
not attracted sound financial investment but I am
sure that the success of the pioneering efforts of
men like Osei K warne Despite will encourage
serious investors to consider what can be done to
build a strong and economically viable media. This
is important to ensure the media can recruit and
sustain the quality of professionals who will take
the media to a new level.

The need to consider and embrace change goes
beyond possible consolidation of diverse
interests. Changes in format will appear
imperative if you are to be able to make sense of
development journalism. It certainly is offensive
to present the entire nation with one set of
panelists who will speak with the authority of
experts on every subject under the sun, from how
to grow tomatoes to nuclear energy, with sports
thrown into the bargain. I despair when you
assemble a panel of political party communicators
with no background in finance or banking or
business to discuss critical issues of finance and
the national currency.

Surely, This country has an accumulated body of
experts who have handled the economy from the
first to the fourth Republic, participated in the
toughest negotiations with the international
financial community and seen us through the peaks
and troughs of the economy and we also have men
and women in business, banking and finance whose
insight the country can benefit from. Make the
most of the available expertise and the country
will be the better for it.

Mr. Chairman, it is good and right that we
maintain our perspective in the midst of all that
is falling around us. I have already alluded to
the fact that we are passing through difficult
times. The fact that we may have been through a
similar or even worse experience before can be no
comfort.

What matters is to fix the problem. And while we
contemplate the role you can play, we must look to
the leadership of the state for the solutions. The
tendency to tinker with problems by a process of
shifting cultivation does not inspire confidence.
I am sure the host of business entities that have
sponsored you tonight must all be hoping that in
the not too distant future, somebody will be
providing solutions to the myriad of problems
afflicting their business. I am confident too that
the multitudes who read or listen to you every day
are waiting for solutions too.

The solutions, I have to say, lie in the bosom of
one man and only he can provide the answers. So I
say unto the President of the Republic, in the
seminal words of the Methodist hymn: Master speak.
Thy servant heareth.

And let's hope we will not have to wait too long
for a response. In the meantime, Mr. Chairman, I
will conclude by asking our dear journalists to
ponder over what the Rotary International refer to
as the four-way test of the things we think, say
or do. The Rotary credo challenges us to ask
ourselves four important questions:

Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will
it build GOODWILL and better friendship? Will it
be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

These· questions are not to unsettle you but are
fundamental to the common good which are pivotal
to any social project of creating a better society
and changing the lives of people and country.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your attention and
forgive me if I have not helped your appetite.

Source - MyjoyOnline



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