A number of notable Ghanaians have been allegedly banned by online news portal, GhanaWeb according to National Democratic Congress (NDC), communications member, Dzifa Gunu.
In a screenshot he shared on his social media, from what is perceived as an internal memo from GhanaWeb, a number of vocal Ghanaians on various issues, have been listed and staff of the news portal explicitly asked not to cover any news on them, except a few exceptions.
Dzifa Gunu who is surprised by this move of the news portal attributes this to the change of ownership.
The politician indicated that the new king of GhanaWeb is none other than the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Effiduase-Asokore Constituency in the Ashanti Region, Dr. Nana Ayew Afriye.
They listed the following persons as people with restricted coverage;
Business Decision: Sam George, Lydia Forson, Ransford Gyampo, Kevin Taylor, Twene Jonas, Bongo Ideas, Paul Adom-Otchere and his “Good Evening Ghana” and Media houses that consider the Ghanaweb competitors
On health ground, they banned coverage from people including, Daniel Duncan-Williams (Nicholas Duncan-Williams’s son), Abena Korkor, Funny Face and Moesha Bodoung.
However, they gave some specific conditions under which those banned can be covered including when Sam George is addressing the floor of parliament, when Ransford Gyampo speaks as an executive of UTAG and when Paul Adom Okyere comment on his capacity as the chairman of Ghana Airport Company Limited.
