President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, has condemned the recent spate of attacks on journalists, describing them as deliberate and premeditated acts that must be treated as serious criminal offences rather than minor infractions.
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Dwumfour stressed that such assaults are not impulsive actions but often planned with clear intent. "Usually, issues of such attacks and assaults are premeditated.
These are not issues we should take for granted," he said on The Big Issue with Selorm Adonoo on Channel One TV. "Before anybody plans to attack a journalist in the line of duty, it is either that it has been planned already, determined.