Experienced lawmaker, Mr. Kwame Pianim has called on writers to cease from tolerating arrangements from lawmakers.
Agreeing to him, when writers acknowledge offers to serve in government positions, it has the plausibility of impacting their judgment and compromising their part as the watchdogs of society.
Talking on Accra-based Asaase Radio, the previous government official demonstrated that per the rules of engagement, a writer is expected to sparkle the light on the ills in society and hold lawmakers responsible for their stewardship.
Mr. Pianim encourage shown that as individuals of the fourth domain of the domain, writers are too expected to be impartial in their engagements, in this way, a struggle emerges when they find themselves within the thick of legislative issues. He hence encouraged writers yearning to serve in government to be careful of their conducts.
“You and I ought to make beyond any doubt that we talk the truth. The media (the fourth bequest), yours is to talk truth to control, and I have told my companions who are within the media that in the event that you’re effortlessly astonished by the glare of control, wear’t get close to it. I said it at our assembly the other time: no media person ought to be a part of the board or any open institution. How can you scrutinize a government that you just are portion of?â€, Mr. Pianim quizzed.
The previous Chairman of the Open Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC), had a comparative counsel for think tanks. “How can you criticize a government simply are a portion of? In the event that you're a think tank, you're criticizing approach: you ought to not be portion of policymakingâ€, Mr. Pianim stressed.
The call from Mr. Pianim was in reaction to later arrangement of a few writers to serve on sheets of state educate. Taking after this advancement, a few Ghanaians too took to social media to censure the arrangements.
Concurring to them, those writers have exchanged their validity for political favors. In the mean time, others contended that since writers are portion of the nation building handle, there's no issue in case a writer is named to serve the state.
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