Accra, Ghana, December 11, 2018//-The National Media Commission (NMC) has threatened that it would dissolve the board of Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) if it dares to create a new position for Ransford Tetteh who retires from the state media next March.
This follows attempt by the board to create new Deputy Managing Director position for Mr Tetteh who is the current editor of Daily Graphic, the flagship newspaper of the Group.
Impeccable sources within the organization revealed that the Graphic board which is being controlled by Mr Tetteh had written to the NMC asking permission to create the new office at the time when advertising revenue is declining.
Stand off
Sensing danger about the implication of the creation of the new Deputy Managing Director position on Graphic, the Chairman of the NMC, Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo who has been credited as one of the key reformers of the Graphic Group, had written to the board to stop it from creating the new office.
But the defiant Graphic board chaired by Prof Kwame Karikari won’t abide by the NMC’s decision. At time of going to the press, the NMC and the Graphic board are meeting today to discuss the matter.
Staff support NMC
However staff of the Graphic are in supporting of the stance taking by the Mr Boadu-Ayeboafo and his newly inaugurated commissioners. “The creation of this new Deputy Managing Director portfolio would cripple the most profitable media organization in the country. As it would come with huge salary, allowances, big cars, luxury accommodation, among others”, they said.
I don’t understand why Ransford Tetteh doesn’t want to leave Graphic after rising through from staff reporter, editor, acting Managing Director and back to editor, one of the workers at Graphic lamented.
Mr Tetteh who is the darling boy of the current government was recently in the news for trying to hijack the Graphic MD position he was taken care of following the appointment of a substantive MD. Thanks to the previous NMC commissioners, he was prevailed upon by them to give way to the current Graphic MD, Benjamin Ato Afful.
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