Gratitude
Outgoing General Secretary (right) presenting Handing-over Notes to Incoming General Secretary (Photo Credit: Domiic Credit: David Andoh) On Friday, July 11, 2025, I faced three counts of reality charges that sought to jail my prominence. The first reality charge occurred early in the morning, in the General Secretary’s office at the Ghana International Press Centre (Press Centre), as we prepared for the swearing-in of the newly-elected National Executive members of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA). Dominic Hlordzi, then National Organising Secretary, who would take two oaths later in the morning to become the new General Secretary, received some phone calls ostensibly for interviews and enquiries on the programme. I received none. Then it dawned on me: my time is over! Later in the day, that reality charge would be reinforced following the incidents in the Ablekuma North parliamentary election re-run during which some journalists were assaulted. On such days, and ev...