{"id":393610,"date":"2018-01-21T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393610"},"modified":"2018-01-21T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T14:56:29","slug":"apologise-sexist-comments-gij-src-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/apologise-sexist-comments-gij-src-casely-hayford\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologise for ‘sexist’ comments – GIJ SRC to Casely-Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Students’ Representative Council of the Ghana Institute of Journalism has chastised a member of Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford, for alleged ‘sexist’ remarks he made against the female students of the University.<\/p>\n
They have called on the anti-corruption campaigner to retract and apologise for his comments which they described as “an insult to the values of the Ghana Institute of Journalism.”<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”AWAXrTjB34lhiVVZYJx5PqFvKBxeLpDF”]\u201cCasely Hayford must apologize and retract his statement against female students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. The SRC finds his statement to be very sexist, unfortunate, unwarranted, unguided, without basis and an insult to the values of the Ghana Institute of Journalism,\u201d the statement from GIJ’s SRC said.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s news analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong> on Saturday, Sydney Casely-Hayford advised students of GIJ to focus more on empowering themselves than on trivial things such as fashion.<\/p>\n According to him, most of the students at the University, a large number of whom are females, are more concerned about what they wear than their training.<\/p>\n \u201cGo to the Ghana Institute of Journalism, GIJ, and look at the students who are coming out, majority of them are females and when you look at it, you will see that it is more of a fashion parade\u2026so when we are talking about quality of journalism, they should tone down on the fashion and get a little bit more serious with the actual content,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n