‘Stomach’ journalists, media houses contracted to always defend ‘oppressors’ Shaanxi – Adeti slams

Investigative journalist with EIB Network, Edward Adeti has taken on media outlets which reported the dismissal of his reportage on the withdrawal of Shaanxi Mining Limited’s registration as a mine support service company by the Minerals Commission of Ghana.

Edward Adeti, in his report, suggested that the Chinese mining company has been closed done by the regulatory agency and barred from undertaking any activity relating to mining in the country.

But reacting to this in an interview on Dreamz FM’s State of Our Nation, Public Relation Officer of Shaanxi, Maxwell Wooma dismissed the report by Mr. Adeti as misleading.

According Mr. Wooma, the company has not been kicked out of the mining business in the country  but rather been given a lease to go into large-scale mining under a new business name and will no longer offer mine support services hence, the decision to withdraw its registration as such.

Mr. Wooma’s reaction to the report was subsequently published on dreamzfmonline.com.

But Edward Adeti, who is a celebrated journalist, has taken issues with Dreamz FM’s decision to seek the other side of the story and publishing same on its news portal as the ethics of journalism require.

He contended that giving Shaanxi Mining Limited a platform to air its side of the story amounts to signing an MoU with the company, which he described as an oppressor, to always jump to its defense against the “oppressed”.

“It is because whilst some media practitioners have chosen to stand by the oppressed, some have consciously signed an MoU with the oppressors to always jump to the oppressors’ defense for the obvious reasons,” he said in response to a Facebook user who drew his attention to the report by this news portal.

He slammed media outlets and personnel particularly in the Upper East Region for supposedly allowing themselves to be compromised by the company to do its bidding instead of sticking to their core mandate of being the voice of the voiceless.

For him, such media outlets and practitioners are another variant of a global pandemic causing havoc in the country and on the continent.

He, however, affirmed that he will continue with his diligent and patriotic journalism and will not be perturbed by the activities of such media personnel who are only interested in “filling their bellies” as he believes they will be rewarded according to their deeds on Earth when they die.

“It’s another variant of a global ‘pandemic’ more endemic in deprived Africa and for which we are not likely to find an efficient vaccine. Those who are supposed to help build are rather deliberately helping to pull down and to destroy. That is their own cup of coffee; let them continue to fill their bellies; who cares? Everybody’s reward (not award) is waiting in front and they surely will arrive there at the end of their lives. Time changes every day. Nobody is growing younger. Like you concluded, may the Father of Creation just have mercy,” he added.

—Dreamsfm