In antecedent elections, some journalists, while absolution their duties in the lead-up to and on acclamation day, accept been attacked by political affair thugs, abrogation the media cadre afflicted in some instances.
However, speaking on GHOne TV during the barrage of EIB Network’s Acclamation Hub [coverage for the 2024 elections], the GJA President said journalists accept suffered abundant attacks during elections, admonishing that any advance on a media being will be angrily resisted.
“If you are a baby-kisser or a accumulation of individuals and you don’t accept the attitude or the charge to board journalists during this acclamation period, aloof breach abroad from us. Because if you appear hostile, we’ll accept you with hostility; if you advance us, we will bite, and so it is not article like cossack for boot, but it is article like accomplishing aggregate to ensure that journalists are accustomed to acquittal our work."
“We are there for the citizens; we serve as a arch or the articulation amid the absolute and the governor, the government and the citizens they are ruling. If anybody wants to breach that articulation or arch to cut off that acute role we play, we will not acquiesce that, and that is why I am there. An advance on the media is an advance on the GJA; an advance on any camera being is an advance on me, the GJA President, and so I will go all out. There’s no way any alone or ability can acclimatized or gag us,” he said.