The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has assured journalists of reaching an agreement with the Electoral Commission (EC) to ensure "unfettered access" to election collation centres on Election Day.
The Association said, "Access to election collation centres should be unfettered because it is the right to information." Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, President GJA, stated that while the EC had a "genuine case" for restricting media coverage at constituency and regional collation centres, it would undermine access to information.
He made these remarks during a training session on election reporting organised by the GJA in collaboration with the EC at Oyarifa, near Accra.
Some media practitioners had raised concerns about the EC's decision to select media houses for accreditation to its collation centres on Election Day.