Kumasi and Accra Sports journalists are the same; no difference- Ashanti SWAG Chairman

General Manager (GM) of Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM, Barima Boadaa Otuo-Acheampong popularly known in the sporting arena as Sometymer Otuo-Acheampong has debunked long term notion that Sports Journalists in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital do things differently from what their counterparts in Accra do.

Many Ghanaians have raised concerns about the poor and unprofessional manner in which journalists in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs practice journalism. The situation is said to be worst speciifically in Sports and Political Talk Shows.

However, the Oyerepa FM GM who doubles as Chairman of the Ashanti Regional branch of the Sports Writers Association- Ghana (SWAG) is of different view.

Speaking via zoom on GTV Sports+ Current Affairs programme, “Saving Our Passion”, Sometymer Otuo-Acheampong explained that the confusion over who is doing what in the Ghanaian media space it the use of language.

“All this brouhaha about the ‘unprofessional’ journalism been practiced by sports journalists in the garden city has come as a result of the so-called elitist radio and television stations.

You see using the local language in sports presentation with not be the same as using a foreign language which is the Queen’s language” he noted.

According to Sometymer Otuo-Acheampong sports journalists in Kumasi are not doing anything different from what goes on at the various media stations in the capital city Accra.

“More often than not, the criticism has come from those who are used to the English type of presentation which most people referred to as elite’s media houses, obviously listening to a presentation in Twi or any local language will not be same”, he added.