Joy fm conspires with opposition NPP?

Priding itself as leader in ‘independent’ private broadcasting in Ghana, Kokomleme-based JOY Fm; a once credible and thought-to-be objective radio station in Accra is fast been exposed as an appendage of the opposition NPP in Ghana, The aL-hAJJ can today confirm.

As a result of the violence visited on its staff and properties and the subsequent bashing it received from members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their allies for calling the 2012 presidential election results in favour of president John Dramani Mahama; JOY FM, a flagship media outfit of the Multimedia group, having perhaps regretted its action never ceased working towards bringing down the regime.

Exhibiting extreme hatred for President Mahama and the NDC government, JOY FM has since the swearing into office of the present government embarked on a political agenda to paint government as filthy corrupt and not fit to rule in order to pave way for the removal of the Mahama administration.

Even in clear cases where the once impartial and balanced media outlet is caught flat-footed for peddling false and malicious stories about government and is asked to retract and apologize, the station either renders half-hearted apology or arrogantly fail to do what is rightly accepted in journalism.

Without any sense of shame to the falsehoods they have in the past reported about President Mahama and the government, JOY FM in cahoots with the mouthpiece of the opposition New Patriotic Party, The New Statesman was last week once again exposed for what turned out to be blatant untruth intended to create disaffection for the Mahama government.

Deliberately intended to stir the hornet’s nest and rundown government as inept in the management of the power sector, JOY FM gave prominence to a false news item it “manufactured” that “it can report on authority that Nigeria has cut back gas supply to government hence, ongoing load management’.

Well aware of how Ghanaians react to issues of power outages which has been christened “Dumsor Dumsor”, the hitherto fair and balance radio station now turned anti-government media outlet reported that Ghanaians should gird their loins as the power rationing will still linger and even get worse.

Even when the Communication Director of Volta River Authority, Samuel Fletcher, voluntarily spoke on the stations’ morning show program a day after to correct the mischievous and spurious news with an explanation that, there wasn’t any cut in gas supply from Nigeria, JOY FM continued in its deliberate misinformation of the Ghanaian people.

Obviously bent on giving credit to the false story and perhaps to pitch the VRA Communication Director against government, the anti-government station in partnership with The New Statesman widely reported Samuel Fletcher to have said ‘any promise to end the current power rationing in the country would amounts to a grand deception’.

The VRA Communication Director has since been seething with intense rage over the inaccurate and twisted reportage.

Since the inception of the Mahama government, JOY FM and Multimedia in general have persistently embarked on an undrilled agenda to create public disaffection for government aimed at forcing a regime change.

Government has had enough of their spurious and false reportage when it accused it of working towards regime change in one of their highly hyped but inaccurate reportage that the president stopped managers of the defunct Merchant bank from collecting monies his brother, Ibrahim Mahama owed the bank.