Otumfuo pledges GH¢5,000 for 2013 GJA Journalist of the Year

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu has pledged a reward of GH¢5,000 for the 2013 GJA Journalist of the Year, Mabel Aku Baneseh.

Otumfuo made the pledge when officials of the Ghana Journalist Association paid a courtesy call on him to thank him for gracing the 19th edition of the awards.

While commending Ms Mabel Aku Baneseh of the Daily Graphic for winning the coveted Journalist of the Year award, Otumfuo Osei Tutu described the feat as a clear testimony of how women strove to attain excellence when given the opportunity and urged other female members of the fraternity in the Ashanti Region to emulate her example. 

Mr Monney was full of praise for the Asantehene for honouring the association’s invitation to the awards night and raising issues of national importance at the event.

When she was invited by the king to make a comment, Ms Baneseh urged her colleagues to be guided by their professional principles, which included fairness, truth, accuracy and, above all, impartiality.