Managing editor of Business Day Ghana, Felix Dela Klutse has won the Ghana Journalist Association’s (GJA) award for best Business and Financial journalist 2014.
Mr. Klutse won the award dubbed Kwadwo Baah Wiredu’s best Business Journalist award with a story on indigenous banks.
Speaking to Business Day after winning the award, Felix Dela Klutse expressed his profound gratitude to God, Business Day staff and business partners for the support.
“I thank God for this award and I dedicate the award to staff of Business Day newspaper and especially all our business partners and readers”, Felix said.
For his award, Felix Dela Klutse received a certificate and a plaque from organisers of the award.
The Special guest of Honour for this year’s GJA awards, His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, in his remarks, touched on the theme for the awards night and patted Ghanaians on the back for “bearing “ with his government in these challenging times of erratic power supply.
He assured Ghanaians and reiterated his resolve to fix the blackout permanently by adding on the national grid after the completion of a number of thermal projects throughout the country.
“We can fix the challenge with the support of all Ghanaians. It is possible to have quick fixes, but what we need is permanent fix”, President Mahama stated.
He thanked all Ghanaians for bearing with the situation and also having a sense of humour in times such as these.
On the media landscape, he observed that though journalism had improved over the years, there was more room for improvement.
President Mahama called on the media to educate Ghanaians about some of the interventions government was embarking on to resolve the ‘dumsor’ issue.
The CEO of Ideal Finance – lead sponsors of the awards event – Dr. Nii Kotei Dzani, disclosed his company had made provisions to train 20 journalists this year “in any part of the world”,
especially in the Business and Finance Journalism category .
The GJA -Professor P.V Ansah/ GJA Journalist of the year award went to Joy FM’s Seth Kwame Boateng whose documentary on the country’s prisons led to a massive overhaul of the conditions at the detention facilities in Ghana.
The Ghana Journalists’ Association (GJA) held its 20th Awards ceremony under the theme: “Ghana in Search of Reliable Energy to Power Development: The Role of the Media.”
The ceremony was held at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra.
By Sheila Williams
