Unite to develop nation — Rev. Tetteh
The Founder and President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach, Rev. Dr Lawrence Tetteh, has called for a united front to build the country.
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He has, therefore, advised Ghanaians against politicising issues of national interest.
“At this time, as a nation, what we need is a united front. Good things should be commended, bad things should be condemned; whether it is NDC, CPP or NPP. It is Ghana we need to promote,” he stressed.
The international evangelist made the call at the launch of the Ghanaian R
adio and TV Magazine in Accra.
Posterity to judge
Rev. Dr Tetteh warned that posterity would judge Ghanaians if they did not stop politicising matters of national concern.
“I think we are politicising everything. Christian leaders are politicising and religious leaders are politicising, leaders who are supposed to know better in building the nation. Posterity would judge us if we refuse to do the right thing in the name of politics,” he noted.
He said the bad image created about the country on the Internet must be corrected through a united front. “If you read about Ghana on the Internet, it’s as if the nation is at war, but Ghana is not at war,” he said.
He, therefore, asked the publishers of the magazine to use it to showcase the good things about Ghana and Africa at large.
He charged them to use the magazine for development and not to abuse or distort information in the name of politics.
About magazine
In his welcome address, the Consulting Editor of the magazine, Nana Sifa Twum, said they had identified gaps of information for presenters, producers and media owners.
He said the magazine would, therefore, be an institutional authority that would carry certain articles that would guide people working in the electronic media to do the right thing.
Mr Twum said the magazine would be research-based and would serve as an academic material for journalism students across the country and Africa at large.
He added that they would be looking at the work of the various Ghanaian stations across the globe to see whether they were working towards the cultural, political and the educational values of the country.
The 52-page magazine has Dr Gifty Anti on its cover page with the headline “Gifty Anti: The Brain and the Voice Behind Feminine Side, in the media.”
In a brief remark, Dr Anti urged young journalists to accept criticism in good faith, strive to do better and improve upon what they were doing. She also urged media owners to ensure that the needed logistics for the effective delivery of journalists were provided.
Magazine launched at right time
The President of the Ghana Journalists Association, Dr Roland Affail Monney, said the magazine was born at the right time to help rectify the mistakes in the media and to re-inforce what the media was doing right.
