NDC Top Ranks Accuse Joy FM Of Sabotage

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Dr. Kwabena Adjei
Dr. Kwabena Adjei

wpid-joyfm-300x193.jpgA leading member of the ruling National Democratic Congress is intensely enraged by what he described as the Multimedia Group?s conscious politically-motivated effort to court public opprobrium for the President, John Mahama and the government, with its never-ending malicious and biased reportage.

 

According to the NDC guru since the ruling party snatched power from the New Patriotic Party in the 2008 election, the Multimedia Group has taken advantage of government?s tolerance of their uncountable spurious and image-denting stories to continue to do dirty jobs for the biggest opposition party, towards a regime change.

 

Speaking in an exclusive interview with?The aL-hAJJ?over the weekend, the NDC kingpin, who does not want to be named bemoaned the Kokomlemle based station?s disingenuous hate-campaign against President Mahama and the NDC government in the name of performing its gate keeping role.

 

One of such ploy to court public hatred for the Mahama government, the peeved NDC stalwart noted was a recent skewed debate organized by Joy Fm, an affiliate of the Multimedia Group on the Judgment Debt Commission (JDC), held at the Kofi Anan International Peace Keeping Center on the motion ?Ghana?s Judgment Debt Commission is a Waste of Public Resource?

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As part of the organizers? strategy according to the NDC top gun, ?the anti-government media House packed the auditorium for the debate with opposition elements for them to cheer and vote for the motion in order paint the JDC set up by President Mahama as a useless venture and to portray to Ghanaians that government was wasting state resources on it?.

 

The debate, which was moderated by Emile Short, former Head of the Commission on Human right and Administrative Justice, had senior attorney at Faibille and Fabille, Mr Egbert Isaac Fabille Jr and the Dean of GIMPA Law School, Mr Ernest Kofi Abotsi, argued for and against the motion respectively.

 

In the ensuing vote, 43 people voted for the motion whiles 31 voted against with four people abstaining, confirming Joy Fm?s wish, that the setting up of the Judgment Debt Commission, (which incidentally had been hailed by all sides of the political divide) as a useless venture.

 

An unrepentant apologist of the NPP, Egbert Fabille Jr, who had in several instances escorted his clients, mostly NPP officials to testify before the JDC, in his submission said the?commission was not just a waste of public resources but a “needless” waste of public resources.

 

Justifying his accusation of Joy Fm with reference to Mr Short?s opening remarks that the debate would not please government; the NDC stalwart noted that Joy Fm deliberately chose that topic ?in order to resurrect all the alleged corruption scandals in this government and keep it on the front burner to smear the Mahama administration?.

 

He said why would a station with Joy Fm?s pedigree ignore all the burning issues facing the country and other pressing matters requiring urgent attention to debate the work of a commission whose existence has been acknowledged by all sides and that is also doing a fine job to unearth circumstances which led Governments to have doled out huge sums of money to individuals or companies in the name of judgment debt?

 

?This is not the first time Joy Fm has engaged in this mischief. If you would recall, the station latched on a draft report on alleged scandal at GYEEDA and serialized it to create an impression as though government was filthy corrupt.

 

Recently, they started painting a gloomy picture about SADA under the guise of an investigative piece and all of us were carried away by the kind of things they were publishing only for it to turn out that what they were churning out was a draft audit report?and you have a well-established media house like Joy Fm feeding on a draft report,? the NDC stalwart bemoaned.

 

He recounted how in the heat of the discussions on the sale of Merchant Bank to Fortiz Equity Fund Joy Fm mischievously put out a story to the effect that President Mahama prevented managers of Merbank from collecting a loan his brother owed the bank.

 

The publication turned out to be false and Joy Fm after realizing its folly only offered a ?half-baked? apology to the President and government. This was after the Ministry of Information and Media Relations in a statement accused the station of working towards a regime change.

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