According to the Awards Committee, Mr. Sefa Kayi has been outstanding in the year under review. He is said to have used his brand and platform to raise funds to procure incubators to save dying babies in selected hospitals across the country.

For the first time, the overall journalist gets a three bedroom house from KOANS Building Solutions. Mr. Sefa Kayi also received a Kingsize mattress, a plaque and a certificate.

A total of 35 journalists from television, radio, print and online media, are being recognized for their hard work in producing compelling stories in 2016.

Citi FM wins 6 GJA awards; anti-galamsey campaign recognized

Citi FM strengthened its position as one of Ghana’s leading radio brands as the station bagged six awards at today’s [Wednesday] Ghana Journalists Association [GJA] awards at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra.

The station’s anti-galamsey campaign, ‘Stop Galamsey Now’, which was launched earlier this year, came up for special mention at the ceremony, with the station picking up an award for its unrelenting fight against the menace.

Citi FM’s flagship programme, the Citi Breakfast Show, was named the best talk-show on radio, adding to the award it won at the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) awards in September this year.

Citi FM also picked up honours for Best Political Reporting as well as an Anti-Corruption Award for the station.

Host of the station’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue, Umaru Sanda Amadu, also picked up an award for his work in development journalism, which is contributing towards the attainments of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Another of the station’s reporters, Kojo Agyeman, who emerged first runner-up in the 2017 edition of the Ghana Mining Industry Awards, was also given a special award for his reports.

His reports were key to the #StopGalamseyNow campaign which eventually prompted the Minister of Lands and National Resources, John Peter Amewu to crack down on the illegal miners.

A six-month ban was imposed, and was eventually extended by three more months to January 2018.

List of awards won by Citi FM at the 2017 GJA Awards:

1. Special Award for the Fight Against Illegal Mining.
2. Anti-Corruption Award
3. Best Talk show (Radio)
4. Best Political Reporting
5. Development Journalism for Furthering SDGs – Umaru Amadu Sanda
6. Special Awards for Fight Galamsey – Kojo Agyeman

Some four Multimedia journalists also received awards.

Joy News’ Latif Iddrisu received award for best reporter anti narcotic. He was also awarded for his role in the anti-galamsey fight. Seth Kwame Boateng received the best feature award, for his ‘Left to Rot’ documentary, a sequel to the ground breaking Locked and Forgotten documentary he did on the country’s prisons.

Joy Sports’ Benedict Owusu also picked up the award for best Sports Journalist, broadcast category, with Myjoyonline.com’s David Andoh winning the best photo journalist award.

Other Award winners

Best Agriculture report – Seth Bokpe (Daily Graphic)

Best Feature, Education and Investigative Reporting – Alice Aryittey (GHOne)

Best Health Report – Peter Kwao Adator (TV3)

Best Sanitation and Hygiene Report – Jamila Akweley Oketchire (Daily Guide)

Most promising journalist – Portia Gabor (TV3)

Best Talk Show TV – Good Evening Ghana (Metro TV)

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By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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According to him, the decision by the country’s electoral body “makes no sense” and may force some journalists to focus on negatives on the day of the elections.

[contextly_sidebar id=”uxCuoJ6q16k6suT4WmSYwvtGqZpmxneZ”]“I think it is shameful, that you will charge the media to cover the elections… I don’t think it is a very good thing you have done. You are denying journalists the right to report the truth, the situations as they happen to people. I don’t think that is a smart thing to do, I don’t know why a journalist or part of the media, you have to pay money to cover the elections. If we are not careful, we will end up reporting disaster. Little things like what the Electoral Commission has done to us as journalists is what starts these small things,” he said.

Speaking at a stakeholders meeting organized by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) on Monday, November 21, Kwame Sefa-Kayi said journalists must not be made to pay before they cover national events such as the elections.

The Electoral Commission recently announced it will charge journalists 10 cedis and 20 cedis for Ghana Journalists Association members and non-members respectively. The amount is to enable the Commission provide accreditation cards, although it has huge government of Ghana and donor funding for organizing the elections.

The decision generated a lot of controversy with a group of journalists dragging the Commission before court over the mater.

But according to Mr. Sefa-Kayi, Host of the ‘Kokrokoo’ Morning Show on Accra-based Peace FM, it is improper to introduce the charges for this year’s elections, when that has never been the case since the country started conducting democratic elections.

NCCE must stop the pretense

He further accused the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) of pretending to be working actively ahead of this year’s election, when it lacked the needed resources to carry out its mandate.

According to him, although the Commission has in various interactions complained about their inadequacies, it has failed to channel its grievances to the appropriate quarters in government to have them addressed tenable them work effectively.

Below is the video of Mr. Sefa Kayi’s address at the forum.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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