News:
December 5, 2017
Chairman of the Privileges committee and first Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu has revealed that a lot of Journalists in Parliament House would have been hauled before the privileges committee if Parliament had been strict on its rules.
When discussions are held at close sitting, anybody who reports anything, the rules are clear, if you report anything whether a member or an outsider you are in contempt.
And yet you find a way to be getting information from close sitting, “you even go out to say from your hint from within those are dangerous you will find yourself in trouble with the parliamentary legal regime”, he said.
According to the first Deputy Speaker, the reportage of a Journalist should have an element of achieving a National interest, “how are you in your reportage helping Parliament to focus on its core mandate”?
He further noted that Journalists should do their research before conducting interviews and interrogate issues they conduct interview around and not just take what they are told by MPs.
Sometimes I am sick to the bone when a person conducting the interview is allowing a person to lie freely, “if you are not knowledgeable, how do you point the untruth in the speech of the person you are interviewing? I encourage you to be more investigative prepare very well before you conduct an interview”, he advised.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com