[ 2015-11-29 ]

Gov’t pays journalists to focus on NPP crisis – Blay
The New Patriotic Party is claiming some
journalists have been paid whopping sums of money
by the John Mahama administration to keep their
focus on the internal happenings of the NPP, as
opposed to bad governance the people have been
subjected to under the seven-year rule of the NDC
government.

The acting Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Freddie Blay,
made these comments at a press conference held at
the NPP headquarters on Friday, to denounce what
it claimed “the State-sponsored attacks on
the New Patriotic Party”, in the wake of the
dawn raid at the party’s headquarters on
Monday, November 23.

According to the NPP Chairman, instead of the
media focusing its attention on the incompetent
Mahama administration, which has brought in its
wake worsening economic hardships, rising levels
of unemployment, high cost of living, a rapidly
depreciating currency, ‘dumsor’, low
business and consumer confidence in the economy,
and growing levels of despondency amongst the
populace, the media, surprisingly, has its focus
rather on the opposition.

“These times, however, some journalists, by
no means all, are paid to abandon their ethics and
adopt a culture of silence over the way our
country is being incompetently managed, keeping
their attention rather on making the opposition
unduly unpopular,” he said.

To President Mahama, Blay urged him to focus his
energies on solving the myriad of problems he had
placed on the people of Ghana, as opposed to his
constant fixation on the NPP.

“The country is faced with serious
challenges. We will suggest that President Mahama
and his people redirect their energies towards at
least attempting to confront those challenges.
Hiring hoodlums, sending armed men, using state
security apparatus to harass, intimidate, and
provoke reprisal attacks is cheap, archaic and
unimaginative!” he stressed.

“The NPP grossly deplores and condemns these
crude tactics by powerful people of the State to
create a constant state of diversion from the
mountain of problems facing the country. We call
on the good people of Ghana to join us to resist
these growing threats to our democracy by the
forces of darkness.”

To the State security agencies, including the
Military high command, the Ghana Police Service
and the Office of National Security, the NPP
Chairman urged these institutions to conduct
full-scale investigations into how and why and
under whose authorization their own forces were
involved in an attack on the offices of the
opposition.

“The investigations must be conducted
professionally, transparently, and without
political interference or bias. Anyone who
participated in the planning and execution of this
attack must be held accountable. We must end this
here, today,” he added.

Meanwhile, the police and the military have denied
any involvement in the raid at the party’s
headquarters

Source - Starrfm

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