General News of Monday, 6 January 2020Source: starrfm.com.ghJournalists being paid to attack anti-graft colleagues – MahamaFormer President of Ghana, John Dramani MahamaFormer President John Mahama has bemoaned what he says is the weakened approach by the media in the fight against corruption in the country. According to him, some media practitioners are paid to vilify their colleagues who are working hard to expose graft in the country. This is a paradox of our situation,” Mr Mahama said at 88th Annual National Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission Ghana. And that is also a paradox of the situation we face currently.”Mr. Mahama also urged religious and traditional leaders to be bold in criticising what he says is the worrying levels of nepotism and corruption in Ghana today. “Nepotism doesn’t become right because a different government is in power and our religious and traditional leaders must have the courage to speak up against it”.

Source: GhanaWeb January 06, 2020 07:52 UTC