Use your platforms to promote peace and unity – COKA tells female journalists

Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for Afigya Kwabre South, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah (COKA), has admonished female journalists to use their media platforms to promote peace and unity.

He stated that irrespective of one’s jurisdiction, if one region or community was in conflict, it has a rippling effect on another community or region.

To this end, female journalists should endeavour to be peace ambassadors.

Chairman Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, affectionately stated this in his maiden interaction with some selected female Show Hosts, Producers, Reporters and Editors in the Ashanti on Saturday, 30th August.

He reiterated the significant role of women in development, hence his deliberate effort in increasing women in appointed positions during his term as Constituency Chairman.

On engaging the female journalists, COKA noted the role females are playing in the media landscape; however, in most situations, political figures only interact with their male colleagues.

He was optimistic that such a meeting with the females in the Journalism profession was timely to serve as motivation to the females that their work in the media industry was appreciated.

To those who were not members of the Ghana Journalists Association, he encouraged them to register as joining professional groups was necessary in shaping the work they do and also to get assistance from such professional associations in times of need.