By Ghana News
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Management of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) says the state-owned firm is grappling with a severe financial crisis that has triggered a high attrition rate among its journalists and staff.
According to management, the government’s failure to release budgetary allocations for compensation and goods and services in the last quarter of 2024 has worsened the situation.
As a result, many reporters who pre-financed news coverage last year are yet to be reimbursed.
During a visit to the GNA by Parliament’s Information and Communication Committee, management made a passionate appeal for urgent financial support to sustain operations and preserve the agency’s role in Ghana’s media landscape.
Director of Editorial, GNA, Beatrice Asamani Savage, noted that “It is so important that our conditions of service can be improved. Even when you are sending our journalists to the field today, we are anguished because the all-inclusive and out-of-station allowance is GHS280, accommodation, news, and everything.
“They are excited to go but once they come and you give them the money they know they can’t sleep in any descent place, let alone feed themselves. So we are actually suffering but our resilience has kept us. The attrition rate is very high for the journalists and other staff so we really need your support.”
The Chairman of the Information and Communication Committee of parliament, Abednego Bandim Azumah assured that some of the concerns raised would be channeled to the sector Ministers for redress.
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