The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has termed on media practitioners to be circumspect in the reportage bordering some sensitive troubles ongoing in the place.
The Association believes ongoing conversations surrounding the latest agitation by some secessionists teams in the Volta Location have the probable to spark chaos if not dealt with diligently.
This comes on the again of disturbances orchestrated by individuals believed to be associates of the Homeland Research Team Basis (HSGF) on Friday, September 25, 2020.
Their transfer is knowledgeable by a plebiscite in 1956 which made a unitary Ghana, on the back again of which the group is demanding autonomy.
Governing administration has disputed statements that the plebiscite that noticed to the development of the Volta Location was time-bound.
The group conducted a simultaneous assault on the Aveyime and Mepe Police Stations in the North Tongu District of the Volta Area on Friday to push home their needs.
In a assertion signed by its President Roland Affail Monney, the GJA suggested the media to “be conscious of the constitutional order and desist from reportage that undermines the sovereignty of Ghana and threatens the peace and protection as we method the December elections.”
The September 28 statement also urged the management of the country to guarantee that the difficulties underpinning the rioting are settled amicably.
Thirty-one particular persons arrested around Friday dawn’s revolt in the Volta Region have been slapped with five prices by condition prosecutors at an Accra Circuit court.
The expenses relate to conspiracy to commit crime specifically to go to a assembly of the prohibited organisation, to take part in a campaign of a prohibited organisation and rioting with weapons.
