{"id":208371,"date":"2025-09-27T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sammy-awuku-urges-fourth-estate-to-follow-gja-code-of-ethics-when-holding-duty-bearers-accountable\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:23:50","slug":"ghana-sammy-awuku-urges-fourth-estate-to-follow-gja-code-of-ethics-when-holding-duty-bearers-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-sammy-awuku-urges-fourth-estate-to-follow-gja-code-of-ethics-when-holding-duty-bearers-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Sammy Awuku Urges Fourth Estate to Follow GJA Code of Ethics When Holding Duty Bearers Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Member of Parliament for Akuapem North, Samuel Awuku, has called on the Fourth Estate to strictly adhere to the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Code of Ethics when reporting on public officials and state institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In a statement issued on 25 September 2025, Mr Awuku said a recent publication by the Fourth Estate about the National Lottery Authority&#8217;s (NLA) Good Causes Foundation misrepresented facts about projects undertaken during his time as Director-General.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to him, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260607.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Akuapem North, Samuel Awuku, has called on the Fourth Estate to strictly adhere to the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Code of Ethics when reporting on public officials and state institutions. In a statement issued on 25 September 2025, Mr Awuku said a recent publication by the Fourth Estate about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[23730,258,256,52434,37266,6713,9134,11390,6779,13738,15935,4508,4509,20167,14784,257,25710,254,6810],"class_list":["post-208371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accountable","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awuku","tag-bearers","tag-code","tag-duty","tag-estate","tag-ethics","tag-follow","tag-fourth","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-gja","tag-holding","tag-news","tag-sammy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}