The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has announced the deployment of volunteers in all the 276 constituencies nationwide and at the Ghana International Press Centre (Press Centre) to collect and collate results of the December 7 elections.
Also, GJA has set up a platform to project provisional and certified results of the elections.
These will be on giant monitors mounted at the Press Centre for the benefit of the media, political actors and the general public.
In a presser, the General Secretary, Kofi Yeboah explained that under the project, the GJA election volunteers will also observe the general conduct of the elections and particularly report infractions of, and against, media practitioners to the leadership of the Association for quick resolution.
“The GJA has also set up a seven-member Election Monitoring Team to compile a comprehensive report on the outcome of the elections. Furthermore, the GJA has designated the Gifty Afenyi Dadzie Conference Hall at the Press Centre as a prime location for the organisation of press conferences on election-related matters by all political actors,” the statement read.
Given the central location of the Press Centre, it offers a central port of call and great convenience at no cost to all the political actors and the media for interaction on election-related matters.
The GJA has engaged extensively with, and received round endorsement from, political parties and media managers about this initiative.
Meanwhile, the GJA has said it received 9,009 media accreditation tags from the Electoral Commission as of Thursday, December 5, 2024, for distribution to media practitioners, including 100 foreign journalists, covering the elections.
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