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Sydney Casely-Hayford
Sydney Casely-Hayford

GIJ students more concerned about fashion than training – Sydney

Member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford has advised students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism to focus more on empowering themselves than on trivial things such as fashion.

According to him, most of the students at the University, a large number of whom are females, are more concerned about what they wear than their training.

“Go to the Ghana Institute of Journalism, GIJ, and look at the students who are coming out, majority of them are females and when you look at it, you will see that it is more of a fashion parade…so when we are talking about quality of journalism, they should tone down on the fashion and get a little bit more serious with the actual content,” he added.

‘Sexist, baseless’

Meanwhile, unhappy with the remarks of Mr. Casely-Hayford, the Students’ Representative Council of GIJ issued a statement chastising the Occupy Ghana member and demanded an apology from him.

“Casely Hayford must apologize and retract his statement against female students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. The SRC finds his statement to be very sexist, unfortunate, unwarranted, unguided, without basis and an insult to the values of the Ghana Institute of Journalism,” the statement added.

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