Ashanti Regional GJA Executives Sworn Into Office

Elected officers of the Ashanti Regional chapter of the Ghana Journalists Association, GJA have been sworn into office to serve a three year term. 

The new officers were sworn in by A Kumasi High Court Judge, Justice Samuel Obeng Diawuo, at a short ceremony in Kumasi. 

The new officers are Kingsley Hope, Chairman and Georgina Ama Ankumah, Secretary. 

Ashanti GJA Chairman, Mr. Hope expressed gratitude for the opportunity to lead the GJA branch in the region and pledged his commitment to foster unity, build on the GJA’s status in the society and make it even more credible and formidable. 

He therefore appealed for unity of purpose and active participation of all GJA members. 

The Regional Chairman of the Trades Union Congress, Kofi Asianowa commended the GJA for unionizing the Association and urged the executives to use the new status to bargain better working conditions for journalists in the country. 

He said the GJA should move a step beyond unionization and impress upon Media owners to improve better working conditions for journalists. 

This, he tasked the Association’s executives to increase the negotiation powers of the GJA to have better conditions of service for media practitioners. 

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Sam Kwatia who chaired the ceremony, called for the strengthening of the GJA as one of the pillars of the regime of freedom of expression as well as the institution entrusted to help raise the standards to the highest quality of journalism in the country. 

He also called on media practitioners to exhibit high professional standards.

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