GNA ought to be rescued - Mrs Adotey.

Accra, Sept. 15, GNA - Mrs Rebecca Adotey, a Deputy Minister of Communications, on Wednesday said the Ghana News Agency ought to be rescued from collapse to enable it to play its role of unifying the country.

She said the Agency has to be assisted financially to be able to acquire equipment such as computers to collect and disseminate information as swiftly as possible otherwise "we stand the risk of allowing foreigners to misinform the world about us".

Mrs Adotey was speaking after she had seen the broken down main computer system and a few new ones received from donors during an inspection tour of the Agency. Two main servers, which is the brain of the computer network, have broken down She commended the staff for their commitment and dedication to duty despite the constraints.

Mr S. B. Quaicoe, General Manager of the Agency, had told the Deputy Minister that about 600 million cedis was needed to buy a new computer system with a news agency application. He said if the Agency is re-capitalised, it would be able to deliver the news at near real time as possible and "bring back customers, who left as a result of late delivery of news following the break down of the main computer system".