An applicant for the Ghana Writers Affiliation (GJA) Mr David Agbenu says when casted a ballot as the affiliation's leader, the GJA will support and start a private individuals' Bill to parliament to condemn attacks on media experts.
He said the time had come to stop security faculty and legislators pestering and thumping of writers during the release of their authority obligations.
Talking on the Ghana News Office Tema Office and Tema Engine Transport and Traffic Office (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Administration Street Accidents Counteraction Mission, on the theme, "Impacts of street security on writers and media houses," Mr. Agbenu said media experts have endured a great deal of mishaps and attacks.
Mr. Agbenu who is additionally the Proofreader of the Ghanaian Occasions, who was joined by Mr. Norman Cooper, Representative News Supervisor, focused on that for issues, for example, these and many, he would guarantee that contacting columnists turned into a custodial offense.
He likewise said there was the requirement for GJA to be changed into an association to give it the haggling ability to arrange compensations and other significant things remembering security for benefit of correspondents.
He expressed for moment that despite the fact that Ghanaian Occasions was an individual from the Modern and Business Association (ICU), when the Ghanaian Occasions lost its staff, Mr Samuel Nuamah, who was an Official Journalist in 2015 on the profession, "we didn't hear from ICU which we have a place with, and they give us nothing when we are beaten or are engaged with mishaps".
He said he will guarantee the course of the GJA unionization was finished and thusly requested individuals to gauge their choices from joining a normal association or a particular one for the calling to advocate their particular requirements.
Mr Francis Ameyibor, Tema Local Supervisor of Ghana News Office, said it was no time like the present the media changed the elements and the manner in which individuals see professionals, focusing on that "We should be gotten and treated as the fourth domain of the bequest".
"Our pay rates are terrible yet we battle for the course of other people who might have great pay rates than our own, we battle for themselves and when they get it they disregard us, let us additionally battle for our own revenue as well," he noted.
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