Mandate of GNA still relevant today

Accra, March 5 GNA - Mr Rexford Owusu-Ansah, Board Chairman of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), on Friday called on workers of the Agency to keep the organisation alive, since the mandate for setting up the Agency was still relevant today.

He said the Board was also determined to overcome the challenges that had beset the Agency, in order to position it as a unique and efficient organisation to serve Ghanaians to the best of its ability. Mr Owusu-Ansah made the call at a thanks-giving service to mark the 47th Anniversary Celebration of GNA in Accra.


Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, First President of the Republic of Ghana, established the Agency to tell the African story from an African perspective by providing truthful, reliable and credible news and information.


Mr Owusu-Ansah said for the short time that his Board had been in office; it had supported and directed the Management to take initiatives to enhance the work environment and pursue the best options for the re-engineering of GNA.


He noted that the continued progress of GNA would also depend on the hard work and unity among the workers, as well as their loyalty to the organisation and respect for one another.

The Board Chairman urged the workers to stop negative publicity about their own institution, since this had negative effects on the image of the organisation.


He said the Board and Management would work to improve the service conditions of staff and asked for their support.


Mr Robert Kafui Johnson, General Manager of GNA, urged the workers to give of their best to the development of the Agency and urged those who had grievances against the Management to pass through the right channel for redress, rather than to go to the public domain with it. The Reverend Father Ransford Titus-Glover of the Saint Paul's Anglican Church at La, urged the workers to be part of the solution to the problems facing the Agency.


Rev Fr Titus-Glover, who is also a staff of the Agency, called on his fellow workers to kindle eep the "fire" that was started 47 years ago by the founding fathers and pioneers, still burning. "There is the need to move forward, this can only happen when we have love" "From this time, oneness should be our watchword" he said. The Ladies Association of GNA presented Mr. Emmanuel Laalai Otoo, who was employed at the age of 16 yeasr, and had worked for the Agency for the past 42 years, with a prize.