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Tamale, Ghana – Journalist and media trainer with Kings Hall Media Limited, Ama Kudam Agyemang, has urged Ghanaian journalists to use their mediums to constantly highlight on issues of open defaecation.
She entreated journalists to use the slogan “NO TOILET FACILITY, NO WIFE” to help fight the menace.
Madam Ama who has many years of reporting experience in the areas of water and sanitation, believed the slogan would influence men to put a stop to open defaecation by constructing toilet facilities in their houses for themselves and their families.
Speaking at a one-day media summit organised by Kings Hall Media Limited in partnership with World Vision International Ghana in Tamale on Thursday April 19, 2018, she entreated journalists to do “some advocacy on shit” adding that, when this is done, persons who hitherto thought they were safe would be enlightened on the dangers associated with open defaecation.
According to her, serious advocacy on open defaecation could “influence the framing of policies, some of which are lacking in substance and need to be changed.”
As it stands currently, she said less than 1percent of funds from the national budget had been allocated to the sanitation sector. “It is the responsibility of journalists to report on issues that will bring about sectorial prioritization and changes in policies” she stressed.
She called on the participants at the summit to conduct extensive research into issues they frequently report on in order to expand their knowledge and bring a stop to the falling standards of the journalism profession.
“If we want to serve our mandate as journalists, we need to learn. This is a special appeal to all my colleagues, you are in an era where learning has been made easy, now at the touch of a button you can get hundreds of articles within a minute. Other professionals keep updating their knowledge, but we just sit down and write what they say. Please let’s make our profession lovable, because it is a very good and noble profession” Madam Agyemang urged.
By Savannahnewsonline.com
