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Asantehene to establish Public Affairs Management Secretariat

Sat, 3 Nov 2001 Source: --

Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11, the Asantehene says he will soon establish a Public Affairs Management Secretariat where issues concerning the palace and media practitioners would be handled.

He said plans are also far advanced for arrangement for the palace to meet the press every three months to share ideas on how best journalists in the region would go about their work to help in the socio-economic and political development of the region.

The Asantehene told the Executive of the Ashanti Region branch of the Ghana Journalists Association and Editors of both the print and the electronic media who paid a courtesy call on him at the Manhyia palace on Friday that there were lots of programmes concerning Health, Education, unemployment and other social interventions, which need to be solved and it behoves on journalists in the region to inform and educate the public on them.

Otumfuo Osei Tutu told the media practitioners that there are a lot they could do to support the development of the region and the nation at large and stressed the need for them to cross-check their facts and figures before going to press.

"Cross-check your information before you write, if it is a scoop as you call it, try to portray it the same way you heard or saw it because if you portray the person or subject you are writing about in bad light you will be haunted by your own bad action," he said.

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