PRESS RELEASE
January 1, 2025
GJA WISHES MEDIA FRATERNITY HAPPY NEW YEAR
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) wishes all media practitioners a Happy New Year as we welcome another year with great expectations.
The GJA recalls that the year gone by (2024) had been very challenging for the media fraternity in Ghana. But in all circumstances, we overcame the challenges through our resilience and collective resolve to serve the interests of the people and Mother Ghana.
In that respect, the GJA commends all media practitioners and houses who stayed the course of professionalism to serve our nation. Ayekoo!
Having shed off 2024 and embraced a new year, we urge media practitioners and houses to continue to be resilient to overcome the challenges ahead. Indeed, there will be challenges in 2025.
But we can only surmount them with collective and unwavering resolve to discharge our mandate procured from the Constitution and owed to the good people of Ghana.
We must not be swayed and/or influenced by any other consideration, including political, financial, religious and tribal inclinations.
The GJA also urges media practitioners and houses to commit to high professional standards at all times in order to help lift Ghana to a higher pedestal in democratic growth, economic prosperity and national development.
Currently, as the nation goes through a transition period for change of administration, and as Ghanaians await the resolution of election controversies and other misunderstandings on the political landscape, the media must endeavour to promote peace during these tensed moments.
The media must not be, or give platforms to, agents provocateurs to breach the peace of the country.
We must defuse, rather than diffuse, tension. And we must douse the fire instead of stoking it.
May all media practitioners and houses prosper beyond measure in 2025, even in the face of uncertainty and adversity.
Afehyia Pa!
[SGD]
Albert Kwabena Dwumfour
(GJA President)
