Ghana's World Press Freedom Index rank an international disgrace - Sammy Gyamfi
President Nana Akufo-Addo will go down as the worst-performing President in Ghana’s history relative to the protection of press freedom, according to the national communication officer of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi.
Ghana currently bears her weakest performance since the inception of the World Press Freedom Index in 2013, with a score of 22.26 in 2020 as against 20.81 in 2019.
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Ghana’s best performance was in 2015 with a score of 15.50.
The 2020 World Press Freedom Index measures the degree of freedom available to journalists in 180 countries by pooling the responses of experts to a set of questions, which is combined with quantitative data on abuses and acts of violence against journalists during the period evaluated.
The higher the score, the weaker the performance.
| YEAR | 2013 |
2014 |
2015 | 2016 |
2017 |
2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| SCORE | 17.27 | 16.27 | 15.50 | 17.95 | 17.95 | 18.41 | 20.81 | 22.26 |
According to Sammy Gyamfi in a write-up,
it can be gleaned from the scores that Ghana’s poorest score/performance under the World Press Freedom Index, is the score of 22.26, recorded this year, 2020, "under the leadership of President William Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
"This international disgrace has been occasioned by the gruesome murder of investigative Journalist, Ahmed Suale and government’s nonchalant posturing towards investigations into that heinous crime, the high-handed closure of radio stations and the harassment of journalists like Manesseh Azuri Awuni and Edward Adeti, under the watch of President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo who prides himself as a vainglorious paragon of free speech.
"This is why President Akufo-Addo will go down as the worst-performing President in Ghana’s history relative to the protection of press freedom."
