GBC has terrible work culture – Manasseh Azuri Awini

Award winning Journalist, Manasseh Azuri Awuni has described the State Broadcaster, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) as one of state institutions that has a terrible work culture.

According to him, the attitude to work in Ghana’s premier broadcasting entity is most appalling, a situation which does not give out the best in the staff.

The former Journalist of the year made the comments while speaking to Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr 103.5 FM.

Manasseh who did his internship at the State Broadcaster while schooling at Ghana Institute of Journalism stated that in as much as staff of GBC may not be upping their game, he confidently can state that the entity has some of the quality personnel any media house will relish to employ.

He recountered the difficulties he had to go through at the office while trying to work on some tapes after he had worked on a chilling story at the Krachi area in the Volta Region, which eventually won the best television reporting during the 2011 Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) awards.

“If you go to GBC, it is a place you can learn. There are very experienced people in that organization. I tell some people that some of the technicians in GBC can do better than some of top reporters in other media houses. But there’s a very terrible work culture there.

Meanwhile, agitated workers of GBC on Thursday abandoned work and took to the streets in protest, setting up a checkpoint at the entrance of the Corporation.

They claimed they had “picked up intelligence that the board was expected to have a meeting at the GBC Thursday afternoon, hence were out in their numbers to ensure no board member got onto the premises.

The Staff have accused the board of “micromanaging the affairs of GBC” and misappropriating GBC’s internally generated funds by “illegally” employing directors without recourse to due process.

They have vowed to continue protesting until their demands for the dissolution of the Board of the Corporation are given in.

But the National Media Commission (NMC), has cleared the governing board of GBC of any wrongdoing after a petition sent to them by the workers’ union.

The Executive Secretary of NMC, George Sarpong, refuted the claims saying their investigations turned out that the board was innocent of the allegations that had been leveled against it.