ASAGA RENDERS APOLOGY TO REPORTER (D/G Saturday, April 18, 2009 PAGE 13)

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Nabdam Constituency in the Upper East Region, Mr Moses Asaga, has rendered an apology to the Ghanaian Chronicle reporter who was assaulted by some NDC supporters while covering a victory rally at Nangodi.
The meeting was is honour of Mr Asaga.
The apology was contained in a letter signed by a close aide to the MP, Mr John Paul Danka, and addressed to the reporter.
It was also copied to the regional secretary of the GJA.
“On behalf of the MP for the Nabdam Constituency, Mr Moses Asaga and his constituents, I will like to convey his profound apology to Mr William Jalulah of the Ghanaian Chronicle on the unfortunate incident that happened on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at his constituency during the victory rally that was organised in his honour”.
“It is also his wish and desire that Mr William Jalulah will overcome whatever trauma that he might have gone through during the unfortunate incident quickly and continue with his good works in the region,” it said.
Mr Danka quoted Mr Asaga as assuring the media that enough security measures would be taken in future programmes to avert any reoccurrence of such incidents.
He also quoted the MP as expressing the hope that the apology would be accepted whole heartedly by the victim of the assault.
It would be recalled that on Saturday, April 11, 2009, a group of NDC supporters in the Nabdam Constituency pounced on the reporter and subjected him to severe beatings.
The reporter’s crime was that he had taken a photograph of some NDC supporter’s engaged in a brawl with a man in an NPP T-shirt.
That act did not go down well with the mob numbering about 15, so they pounced on him in an attempt to forcibly seize the camera to delete the photographs but the reporter resisted.
In the process, the mob not only beat up the journalist, but they also pushed him onto the ground, kicked him severally and bit him on the fingers all in an attempt to snatch the camera from him.
This led to the damage of the camera.
Mr Jalulah was rescued by his colleagues and taken to Bolgatanga where a report was lodged with the Police.
He was later given a medical form to seek medical attention at the hospital.