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Multimedia’s Seth Kwame Boateng has been crowned Journalist of the Year at the 20th Ghana Journalist Association awards.
Boateng's television and radio documentary at the Nsawam Maximum Security prisons that exposed the plight of prisoners, especially those on remand won him the GJA/Prof. PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year.
President John Dramani Mahama who was the special guest of honour at the awards ceremony presented the award to Seth Kwame Boateng.
A highly elated Boateng after receiving the award said, "Eight years ago, I prepared my speech. Every year, I rehearse the script. This afternoon, I picked it up and edited it. And here I am. God has been indeed good. I am grateful to God. It is a miracle... I didn’t dream a day like this will come.”
He also won the best TV and radio feature awards.
The event was held at the Banquet Hall of the State House under the theme,
Below is the full list of winners:
Seth Kwame Boateng - Journalist of the Year Award
Seth J. Bokpe - GJA Komla Dumor Most Promising Young Journalist Award
Seth Kwame Boateng (Joy FM) Features on Radio – (Bloody land)
Seth Kwame Boateng – Features on Television (I shake I walk)
Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) - (Energy self-sufficiency; village of Dadekokpe)
Gabriel Ahiabor (Daily Graphic) - Agriculture – (Watermelon not just water and sugar)
Joseph Opoku Gakpo (Joy FM) - Poverty alleviation (Millennium)
Abdul Moomen (GTV) - Human rights – (Killing the spirit of children)
Wendy Laryea (TV3) – Education - (The waiting is over)
Wendy Laryea (TV3) - Digital journalism - (From floor to desk)
Rebecca Awuah (GBC) – Arts and Tourism
Elvis Darko (Finder) – Courts and crime (One woman, two husbands)
Mabel Aku Baneseh (Daily Graphic) – Anti-corruption – (Rot at National Service Scheme)
Daniel Nanor (Chronicle) - Environment - (Galamsey)
Kwetey Nartey(Joy FM) - Investigative Reporting - (Red light beats)
Kwetey Nartey (Joy FM) - Narcotics - (Narcotic school boys)
Jamila Akweley (Daily Guide) Liquid gold best food ever
Zadok K. Gyesi (Daily Graphic) Small and Medium Enterprise (Unnoticed gold mining)
Samuel Adadi Akapule (GNA)
Della Rusell Ocloo (Daily Graphic) - Sanitation - (Ongoing battle with Zinginshor)
David Andoh (Myjoyonline) - Photography – (Two motorbikes in head-on collision)
Kafui Kaney (GNA) - Rural reporting; Child labour - (Kids abandon school)
Alberto Mario Noretti (Ghanaian Times) - Rural reporting – (Dabi dabi where no one dies)
Doreen Hammond (Daily Graphic) - Education (print) - (The state of libraries)
Samuel Kyei Boateng (Daily Graphic) News (print)
Ayele Ayittey (TV Africa) - Disability (Who leans sign language)
Nii A. Klu (GBC Obonu) Best Ga programme
Nana Konadu Agyemang (Taxis as hearse)
Moses Dotse Aklorbortu (Daily Graphic) -Oil and gas (Oil rigs beg for decommissioning)
Felix Klutse (Business Day) - Indigenous banks
Benedict Owusu (Joy FM) - Sports (Age cheating)
Rebecca Ekpe (GBC) Local governance