By
Alberta Larkai & Sylvia Adzomani
FOUR
sponsors of this year’s Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) Awards have
presented their cheques to the association’s President Mr. Ransford Tetteh.
Alliance
for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), presented a cheque with a face value of GHc
6,000 to be presented to the Best Reporter in Agriculture, whilst Tullow Ghana
Limited TGL, presented GHc 5,000 also to be presented to the Best Layout and
Design
UT
Bank, Revenue Watch and Penplusbytes,
each presented GHc 3,500 which would also go to the Best Column and Best
Reporter in Oil and Gas, respectively.
Tullow
Ghana Limited in addition presented 20,000 dollars in support of Edit to enable
editors of media houses in Ghana improve their skills.
Addressing
the media in Accra last Tuesday, Mr. Tetteh encouraged journalists to report
issues that would impact the lives of the less privileged in the society.
“When you write stories that are reviewed in
all electronic media across the nation, but does not touch the lives of society
then you have not change society,” he said
Government he said will not be everywhere at a
particular time, therefore, it was the job of journalists to bring out
challenges of society for policy makers to find appropriate means of addressing
them.
He
expressed gratitude to the sponsors for the kind gesture.
Gayheart
Mensah, the Investor Relations and Corporate Communication of TGL, said the Oil
and Gas sector was aware of the role the media play in the lives of the people
in society hence the gesture.
He
said the sector needed good governance transparency because places that lacked
those two things have not had good reportage hence the need for the media to hold
government accountable to the people of Ghana.
He
added that oil and gas came with a lot expectations and TGL needed the media to
educate Ghanaians to manage those expectations.
The
Media Program Officer of Revenue Watch, George Lugalambi, said his outfit is
training eight journalists in Uganda to understand the oil and gas sector and
to understand the terms so they can give the public the right information.
Bashir
Jama, the Director of Soil Health Programme of AGRA, noted that smallholder
farmers represent 80 per cent of total agricultural production in the country
but lacked the proper financing therefore the media had to engaged in the
process so issues were brought to the forefront so they could be addressed.
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