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Kweku Baako Jnr wants the government to reconsider its decision to boycott Joy FM and JoyNews TV.
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Kweku Baako Jnr said it would be "cowardly" if the government decided to boycott Joy FM and JoyNews TV, as a result of disagreements between him and the media.
According to the editor of the newspaper New Crusading Guide, this decision – although not officially communicated – lacks courage.
"He [the decision to boycott] is loose and not strategic and I did not expect it to come from the NPP [New Patriotic Party,”] The veteran reporter said at a Newsfile show on JoyNews on Saturday, May 4th.
On March 7, JoyNews aired a documentary entitled "Militia in the Heart of the Nation" showing an unregistered security company and a militia group, De-Eye, training at Christianborg Castle, the former seat of government. .
The 22-minute documentary showed a group of pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) militiamen training within the facility, containing no fewer people than those appointed by the president. .
The government, through the Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, filed a formal complaint on March 13 with the National Media Commission (NMC), saying that JoyNews denigrated his administration in his attempt to suppress the activities of the party militias that saw government officials attacked, the public functions were closed and a by-election was violent.
Government, since the release of the documentary produced by Manbadeh Azure Awuni, JoyNews' award-winning underground reporter, has refused to send representatives to participate in talks on the Joy FM and Joy News TV programs.
Read also: 9 things the government complained to the CNG about the Joy News documentary
Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah apologized to The Multimedia Group Limited, owner of Joy FM and Joy News. Since then, station news producers have struggled to get government appointees who are paid with public money to contribute to public debates.
Read also: The president of the NMC asked to recuse himself for the Joynews documentary file
However, commenting on the boycott of the government, Kweku Baako urged the administration of the NPP, which is generally considered to be more friendly with the media than the National Democratic Congress (NDC), as it will yield no benefit.
"… If there is such a policy, I call on the government and the NPP to review it," he said.
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