The opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC) has apologised to the media for verbal and physical
attacks from some of its members.
Some media personnel have come
under attack from members of the party for allegedly calling the recently held
election in favour of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Some believe the media is the
reason why the Electoral Commission (EC) declared President Akufo-Addo winner
of the election.
A few of this personnel have
vowed not to attend any programme held by the NDC.
Charles Owusu of the Forestry
Commission is meanwhile wondering why members of the biggest opposition party
keep attacking the media and at the same time expect them to cover their
programmes.
‘Unconditional apology’
Speaking to these attacks in an
interview on Neat
FM’s Me Man Nti programme, Sammy Gyamfi, a National
Communications Officer of the NDC said there’s no justification for such
attacks.
He said even though “there’s been genuine cause for leading
members of the NDC to criticize certain media organizations, you don’t have the
right to take the law into your hands”
“…but we’ve realized it’s escalating and increasing the tension;
leading to insults and attacks from our members…you don’t have the right to
take the law into your hands whether they (media) do the right thing or not
leave it in the eyes of public opinion,” he said.
…adding: “we’re sorry for everything; under no circumstance should
any supporter attack a media house no matter what…you don’t have the right to
take the law into your own hands and so as leaders of the party we take full
responsibility for that; we regret that and we are very sorry”.
Listen to him in the video below:
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