Ghana drops 30 places in World Press Freedom ranking as media oppression continues
Mr Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director for Media Foundation for West Africa has indicated that Ghana’s low ranking in the 2022 World Press Freedom ranking is not surprising.
His assessment comes
on the back of the recent rankings by Reporters Without Borders where Ghana dropped 30 places to 60th globally, and 10th in Africa.
It saw Ghana slump into its lowest-ever ranking in almost two decades after it ranked 66th and 67th in 2005 and 2002 respectively.
According to the latest report released out of 180 countries assessed, Ghana recorded a decline in its indicative points from 78.67 per cent to 67.43 compared to last year.
Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, advised
government to put in measures to enhance press freedom in the country.
“The signals were clear and some of us had always raised concerns about developments in the country. I have had the cause to say that this government has had the weakest media in terms of critical journalism and it is experiencing the most repressive tendencies in terms of press freedom.”
“I am not surprised, to say the least. As I said with the developments we were seeing in this country, it is not surprising that other countries have overtaken us. I however did not expect that we drop this low.”
