Journalist Association refers $100 gift allegation to Ethics Committee

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on Wednesday said it has referred the case involving journalists who allegedly received 100 dollars each from their Nigerian hosts to the GJA Ethics Committee for action.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mrs Gifty Affenyi-Dadzie, President of GJA said, "the Ethics Committee is the most appropriate authority to deal with the matter and it will soon begin dealing with it."

The Ethics Committee of the GJA is charged with investigating cases of improper behaviour of journalists. Some senior journalists the GNA spoke to said the journalists had no case to answer as the money was given to a group and that the journalists were just beneficiaries of Nigerian "hospitality."

The governor of Rivers State gave 25,000 dollars to the Black Stars and the delegation that were in Port Harcourt after the final World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria that the Stars lost 0-3. It was a crucial decider that gave the Super Eagles the ticket for the 2002 Japan/Korea World Cup qualifier.