{"id":235338,"date":"2016-07-29T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235338"},"modified":"2016-07-29T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T15:36:30","slug":"graphic-reporter-guilty-of-contempt-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/graphic-reporter-guilty-of-contempt-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic reporter ‘guilty of contempt’ of parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite issuing an apology to Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee after he was summoned before it<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, \u00a0Mark Anthony Vinorkor, a reporter for the\u00a0Daily Graphic, has been found guilty of contempt and ordered to appear before the House to issue another apology.<\/p>\n

The Committee also upheld the revocation of his\u00a0accreditation to work in Parliament and\u00a0\u00a0has ordered him to sign a bond of good behaviour.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”hgcZ99W0fCS2A8IbXLVc2vLclBff6U34″]”The Committee having carefully considered the totality of the\u00a0evidence and especially the honest admission made by Mr.\u00a0Mark Anthony Vinorkor, has concluded that he was indeed in contempt of Parliament.”<\/p>\n

Vinorkor was hauled before the Privileges Committee for reporting that Parliament had clandestinely changed two Constitutional Instruments (CIs) which were laid before the house.<\/p>\n

His reportage centered on the CI which will regulate the conduct of polls, but was viewed as a misrepresentation of the proceedings by some Members of Parliament (MPs)<\/p>\n

In\u00a0apologizing<\/u><\/span>\u00a0for his actions<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Mark Anthony said:\u00a0\u201cAfter my attention was drawn to the fact there were mistakes in those stories I did, I have realized that\u00a0I cannot justify the content in those articles or those stories I did.\u00a0I am very sorry, I didn\u2019t mean to put anything out there to suggest that parliament has done anything unconstitutional, he added\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Anthony’s woes begin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Citi News<\/strong>\u2019\u00a0Duke Mensah Opoku reported that, Vinorkor\u2019s story in the Daily Graphic explained that, the two constitutional instruments which were laid in Parliament last Friday \u201cwere actually changed clandestinely and replaced with a new one on Monday\u201d so the counting of the 21 days of maturity should rather begin on Monday and not Friday.<\/p>\n

He said Members of Parliament especially those from the Minority side were unhappy with the reportage adding that, \u201cthe Deputy Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul, said the action was a misrepresentation which has dire consequences because no member of Parliament has the right to temper with constitutional instruments that are laid on the floor of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite issuing an apology to Parliament\u2019s Privileges Committee after he was summoned before it, \u00a0Mark Anthony Vinorkor, a reporter for the\u00a0Daily Graphic, has been found guilty of contempt and ordered to appear before the House to issue another apology. The Committee also upheld the revocation of his\u00a0accreditation to work in Parliament and\u00a0\u00a0has ordered him to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":231324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGraphic reporter 'guilty of contempt' of parliament - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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