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In view of appeals/petitions that have come before the GJA 2017 Elections Adjudication Committee (EDAC) and pursuant to Article 53 (v) of the GJA Constitution of 2004, the Elections Committee has postponed the elections scheduled for 31st March 2017.
This follows the inability of EDAC to meet the requirements imposed on it per Article 53 (iv) which requires the Committee to “consider the appeal and announce its decisions to the parties involved with a copy to the National Executive not more than four (4) working days after receiving the appeal”.
National Executive positions
Pursuant to part 10 of the GJA Constitution: GJA ELECTIONS AND ELECTORAL PROCESSES, and on the 13th Day of March 2017, the GJA Elections Committee vetted 14 candidates for various national Executive positions.
The following members have qualified to contest the positions they are vying for as follows;
Minister of Information
Members of NMC
Executive Secretary of NMC
President and executives of GJA
Fellow journalists
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen
Good morning to you all
We have gathered here for a very simple task this morning; to launch the Code of Ethics of the GJA. I wish to thank the GJA executive committee not only for inviting me to chair this function but also making me a member of the review panel which produced the first draft of this code. I congratulate the GJA for having the courage to review this code at a time when for a complex number of reasons ethics in journalism faces its biggest challenge. I also commend all those who took part in the review process.
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The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has received with earthshattering shock news of the dismissal of scores of workers of TV3 Network for allegedly threatening “the congenial atmosphere” there.The dismissals follow stalled negotiations on End of Service Benefits (ESB) for staff.
According to TV3 management, the workers had worn red attire to work to signal their frustration over the ESB issue but management found that offensive and fired them. The GJA views the explanation for the dismissal lame, capricious and highly unacceptable and demands the immediate recall of the dismissed staff for negotiations to resume.
Read more: GJA DEMANDS IMMEDIATE RECALL OF DISMISSED TV3 STAFF