Journalism not a profession for ‘the deceitful nor the greedy’ – Sam Jonah

Statesman and business magnate, Sir Sam Jonah, has urged Ghanaian journalists to uphold the tenets and values of journalism in order to hold political leaders accountable to the masses.

The Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in an address at the launch of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in Accra on Wednesday, April 17, urged journalists to be diligent and fair in their work.

Sam Jonah added that journalism is not a profession for the “lily-livered, the deceitful nor the greedy.”

“It is worthy of note that journalism, while it may propel diligent investigators, analysts and writers to great heights, is not a profession for the lily-livered, the deceitful nor the greedy.

As we stand on the precipice of yet another electoral milestone, in my view, the most consequential, the echoes of past violence, the whispers of disenfranchisement loom and I don’t think anyone needs reminding that the conduct of the electoral exercise together with its outcome is so important that the nation cannot afford bias and unprofessional coverage of it by members of your profession.”

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