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An individual from the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Justice Lee Adoboe has recorded a solicitation suit against the promising to help the appropriately picked head of the GJA, Mr Albert Dwumfour.
Mr Adoboe needs charges of pay off evened out against Mr Dwumfour standing apart up to the surveys, investigated first before the swearing-in a shockingly lengthy timespan place.
Mr Adoboe is asking the court to, among others, articulate that the "proposal of money, favors, and furthermore powers by the third litigant [Mr Dwumfour] and Samuel Amoh Tobin, to individuals from first respondent relationship in the Western Region, is a picking heedlessness under article 52 of the GJA constitution".
Something like seven days before the political race, The Fourth Estate revealed that an individual from the GJA in the Western Region, Dotsey Koblah Aklorbortu, referenced of the political decision driving gathering of legitimate overseers of the relationship to investigate and return again to the direct of Mr Dwunfuor, who was one of the three challengers for the association (The other two GJA official competitors are the supervisor of The Ghanaian Times, Dave Agbenu; and a writer and correspondences ace, Gayheart Mensah).
In the requesting, Mr. Aklorbortu ensured that Mr. Dwumfour "with proposed help from the Chairman of Tobinco Group of Company, Mr. Amoh Tobbin, offered individuals from the GJA in light of extraordinary circumstances, [at a meeting], in spite of the smorgasbord, a complete ¢500 (sic)to vote in favor of Mr. Albert Dwumfour."
The candidate further expressed that " Mr. Amoh Tobbin , in the imparted gathering at the Atlantic Hotel in Takoradi, taught writers to decide in favor as for Mr. Dwumfour to get and impel his business.
"He said during the past affiliation, his business experienced under Mr Opuni and that he utilized the media to shield his advantage. Likewise, administering for Mr. Albert Kwabena Dwumfour to change into the GJA President will mean security for his money related matter."
Mr Tobbin is heard in the video saying expecting it were something political, he would inquire, "Would it be fitting for me I give a TV [set] or either", which was welcomed with snickering from the writers present at the get-together.
"I will be of help since I'm in the business and the sky is the limit starting there thusly, I'm a cash boss. Along these lines, I'll require you tomorrow. On the off chance that you come tomorrow resulting to administering for himself and I turn you down, Tobinco is a conveniently seen name. Who knows tomorrow?" he said.
"I'm not a lawmaker, who will say it and essentially disappear. I'm a money related prepared proficient. I'm in a great deal of affiliations. So help him [pointing to Albert Dwumfour] out. Help me out by bringing him. While you bring him… why I acknowledge that you should welcome him on board is to help my business as well. He's my corporate individual. He does usually my social [activities]," he told the component scholars.
The expert says the activities of Albert Dwumfour revoke "Article 52 (b) (c) and (d) GJA constitution 2004. It states '52 (b) it will be a political race offense for any contender to obviously or by idea offer money, slants toward, any motivations, or apply gambles with the suspicion to influence the political decision results. (c) Any applicant found nullifying the approaches of Article 52 (b) will be kept away from after due evaluation by the races advance notice social event and (d) hoping to be viewed as mindful, the novice will be restricted from tending to any GJA races for the going with two (2) coming about wide races.'"
Mr Dwumfour was the National Organizer of the GJA. His residency finished in 2020 nearby the old managers who got a handle on their conditions considering fights in court that conceded the new political decision.
He is likewise the Group Head for Corporate Affairs of the Tobinco Group of Companies.
He gave up his chief gave the correspondents cash yet said it was everything with the exception of an outcome
"He [Amoh Tobin] saw whether I was leaving them [journalists] like that. He got a few information about how much specialists [in the Western Region] and I said around 20 and he said I ought to give every one of them 500 cedis," Mr Dwumfour told The Fourth Estate.
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