An person from the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Justice Lee Adoboe has recorded an order in shape towards the swearing-in carrier of the duly elected president of the GJA, Mr Albert Dwumfour.
Mr Adoboe wishes prices of repay evened out towards Mr Dwumfour main the percent as much as the surveys, researched first earlier than the swearing-in pretty some time place.
Mr Adoboe is calling the courtroom docket to, amongst others, pronounce that the "proposition of money, favors, and moreover impetuses with the aid of using the 0.33 litigant [Mr Dwumfour] and Samuel Amoh Tobin, to people from first respondent courting withinside the Western Region, is an electing negligence below article fifty two of the GJA charter".
About seven days earlier than the political race, The Fourth Estate discovered that an person from the GJA withinside the Western Region, Dotsey Koblah Aklorbortu, asked of the political selection board of trustees of the connection to investigate and comply with up at the direct of Mr Dwunfuor, who become one of the 3 challengers for the administration (The different GJA respectable competition are the manager of The Ghanaian Times, Dave Agbenu; and a author and correspondences expert, Gayheart Mensah).
In the request, Mr. Aklorbortu claimed that Mr. Dwumfour "with implied assist from the Chairman of Tobinco Group of Company, Mr. Amoh Tobbin, provided people from the GJA on favorable terms, [at a meeting], however the smorgasbord, a sum ¢500 (sic)to vote in want of Mr. Albert Dwumfour."
The candidate similarly asserted that " Mr. Amoh Tobbin , withinside the expressed accumulating on the Atlantic Hotel in Takoradi, suggested writers to determine in want of Mr. Dwumfour to steady and boost his enterprise.
"He stated at some stage in the beyond organization, his enterprise skilled below Mr Opuni and that he applied the media to protect his advantage. Accordingly, figuring out in want of Mr. Albert Kwabena Dwumfour to show into the GJA President will suggest protection for his monetary matter."
Mr Tobbin is heard withinside the video announcing assuming it have been some thing political, he could inquire, "Would it's really helpful for me I deliver a TV [set] or either", which become welcomed with chuckling from the writers gift on the accumulating.
"I may be of assist considering the fact that I'm withinside the enterprise and the sky's the restriction from there on this way, I'm a finance manager. Thus, I'll require you the next day. On the off hazard which you come the next day next to figuring out in want of him and I flip you down, Tobinco is an effortlessly identified name. Who is aware of the next day?" he stated.
"I'm now no longer a lawmaker, who will say it and certainly disappear. I'm a monetary specialist. I'm in a ton of organizations. So assist him [pointing to Albert Dwumfour] out. Help me out with the aid of using bringing him. While you deliver him… why I accept as true with which you ought to welcome him on board is to assist my enterprise also. He's my company person. He does typically my social [activities]," he instructed the columnists.
The solicitor says the sports of Albert Dwumfour repudiate "Article fifty two (b) (c) and (d) GJA charter 2004. It states 'fifty two (b) it'll be a political race offense for any contender to straightforwardly or with the aid of using implication provide money, leans toward, any impetuses, or practice risks with the expectancy to effect the political selection results. (c) Any applicant located negating the preparations of Article fifty two (b) may be excluded after due exam with the aid of using the races advisory organization and (d) assuming located liable, the up-and-comer may be banned from representing any GJA races for the subsequent (2) ensuing trendy races.'"
Mr Dwumfour become the National Organizer of the GJA. His residency terminated in 2020 along the vintage chiefs who clutched their conditions due to fights in courtroom docket that postponed the brand new political selection.
He is moreover the Group Head for Corporate Affairs of the Tobinco Group of Companies.
He conceded his manager gave the columnists coins but stated it become whatever however a repay
"He [Amoh Tobin] located out if I become leaving them [journalists] like that. He were given a few data approximately the amount of representatives [in the Western Region] and I stated round 20 and he stated I have to deliver each certainly considered one among them 500 cedis," Mr Dwumfour instructed The Fourth Estate.
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