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Don't tolerate shabby treatment - Kwesi Pratt to journalists
“I think the time has come that we must tell whoever, political parties, governing parties, opposition parties, governments, that we will not be treated shabbily. It is important that we ourselves make that point,” Kwesi Pratt said.
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“I think the time has come that we must tell whoever, political parties, governing parties, opposition parties, governments, that we will not be treated shabbily. It is important that we ourselves make that point,” he stressed.
During Ghana’s 59 Independence Day celebrations last week, both local and international photo journalists were made to climb into the bucket of a Tipper Truck in order to take photographs of the event.
Photos of these media practitioners began circulating on social media with mixed reactions from some practitioners and the general public.
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Some members of the public accused government of treating media practitioners with little or no respect, while others blamed the journalists for tolerating such inhumane treatment from government.
Making his submissions on Radio Gold during a panel discussion on Saturday, Mr. Pratt Jnr. indicated having been a journalist for decades, he is well aware of the humiliation practitioners are made to endure in their line of work.
Recounting some of the treatments meted out to media practitioners in Ghana, Mr. Pratt said: “We are invited to a dinner and we are not served dinner. We are treated so terribly.”
He however, pointed out that journalists are treated as such because “sometimes we ourselves do not display the kind of dignity that we should receive.”
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