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General News of Sunday, July 28, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-07-28
It was revealed that the De-Eye group operated illegally from Christiansborg Castle
The decision of the National Media Commission on the government's request against Joynews' "The Militia in the Nation" documentary was described as a bad service to the nation.
The decision, according to the executive director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), did not answer the questions that the CNM itself had to resolve at the beginning of the hearing .
Newsfile on Saturday told Sulemana Braimah, a contributor to JoyNews' news badysis newspaper, that the CNG was looking for three solutions.
What's a vigilante [militia] group, when the group De-Eye [who were revealed in the documentary as a militia group, occupying the former seat of government at Osu] go out of the castle and they exhibited a form of violence in the documentary?
But according to Braimah, "the nature of the decision of the CNG brings us back to the initial debates during the first broadcast of the documentary".
He said that the decision is unclear on what a militia group is, because they said the De-Eye group did not show any violence in the documentary and so can not be described as militant / activist group.
Braimah said this conclusion is false, noting that what the NMC has decided to say is that "as long as you do not see the army in combat, you should not call it an army."
About the use of videos on the violence of the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon in the documentary, the CNG said that this information was misleading; a conclusion with which the multimedia group is not in agreement.
Braimah supported the usual Newsfile panelist, veteran journalist Kweku Baako, who also criticized the NMC's conclusion.
According to the CNG, the violence videos in the by-elections are not related to the Joynews documentary, but Kweku Baako and Sulemana Braimah indicated that the videos were there to make a point in the production of the documentary and that there was no violation of ethics to use them.
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