The Ghana Journalists’ Association is in the news again and unfortunately this time, it is for the wrong reasons. The Association is to respond to a charge brought against it by the Media Foundation of West Africa, on how it distributed one hundred laptops purchased with funds from the Government Media Development Fund.
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is accusing the journalists group in the country of misappropriating funds set up by the government to assist the development of Ghanaian journalists, thereby leading a campaign to locate the whereabouts of the Funds.
A little bit of survey conducted by Biztechafrica among journalists working in both radio and the print media in Accra reveals that not a single journalist who belong to the journalists association has received a lap top computer as claimed by the president of the Ghana Journalists' Association.
On Wednesday legislatures on the floor parliament questioned the Minister of Information and Media Relations, Mahama Ayariga on the use of funds pledged by the government in 2011 to help the Ghanaian media; they wanted to know how the funds were disbursed.
But the Minister in answering a question said the government was still liaising with the various stakeholders to find the right modalities to disburse the fund. He then disclosed that the leadership of GJA met the government and requested for the laptops as one of their pressing needs.
source: www.biztechafrica.com
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