The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) Sulemana Braimah has stated that the media was as weak as it is today during the administration of former president John Mahama.
Braimah’s comments are in response to Mahama’s claim that the Ghanaian media treated him unfairly when he was in power.
Speaking to supporters of the NDC in the Central Region Sunday, November 5 after the party’s Unity Walk, Mahama bemoaned the media’s constant referral to his appointees as “Mahama boys” and “Mahama girls,” anytime they reported happenings in his government.
“This is media propaganda”, he told the crowd.
However, speaking on Morning Starr Monday, Braimah said even though he agreed with the former president “…I think he ought to have also added that during his administration the media were as weak as they are perhaps today.”
“I think that the former president is not far from right when he said that the media are not doing much in terms of critiquing and analysing events under the current government,” he told Morning Starr host Francis Abban, and that it is “to put whatever he says in perspective, recognising now that of course now he is a politician, he is a citizen and therefore he is also at liberty to criticize the government of the day.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
