Don’t use media to denigrate President — UCF

The United Cadre Front (UCF) has expressed concern about what it terms “current attempts to denigrate” President John Dramani Mahama by sections of the media in the name of press freedom.

“This concern is particularly worrisome as it bothers on the deliberate attempt to propagate the opposition New Patriotic Party’s agenda of making the country ungovernable through press houses that have continuously used their airtime, screens and print pages to further the unholy, anti-Ghanaian wishes of the NPP,” it said.

A statement issued by the UCF and signed by its General Secretary, Mr Felix Efanam Nyaku, stated that one of the most recent of such calculated road maps of ensuring that the President and the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) agenda of making Ghana a better place for all never saw the light of day was Joy FM’s attempt to link the President to the sale of Merchant  Bank because the President’s brother was indebted to the bank.

The statement recalled the negative role Joy FM and the Multimedia Group played in the “spiral campaign against the NDC during the 2012 general elections and that it was deliberately done to ensure that the NPP came to power through the back door.’’

The statement reminded the media fraternity that as the Fourth Estate of the realm and especially operating in a developing economy, it would be suicidal and, therefore, a national tragedy to promote a cause of blatant lies and propaganda that undermined national security, peace and stability.

According to the statement, the UCF was aware of similar diabolical attempts in the pipeline which have been carefully crafted to derail the forward match of the country’s economic agenda because their favoured political party is not in power.

‘’Let it be emphatically sounded that any of such deliberate attempts to show biased reportage which obviously has no iota of truth will be fiercely resisted,’’ the statement stressed.