Here are the four journalists listed on Ghana's 618-member COP28 provisional list
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Update: Two of the four listed journalists (Okay FM and Asaase Radio) have formally denied attending the conference at all
Read full articleFour journalists were listed in Ghana’s provisional 618-member delegation to the COP28 summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
GhanaWeb checks show that there was one journalist from the state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and three others from privately owned outlets based in Accra.
According to the conference categorization of attendees, there are two sets of participants, the party (official government attendees) and the overflow (others coming from Ghana but attending independently).
Ghana’s “party” list came up to 95 with the “overflow” list pegged at 523 according to carbonbrief.org website.
We are unable to state in which capacity any of the journalists attended - if at all they did. The listed journalists were from :
Presenter on Okay FM - listed on page 8 in the attached list below
Reporter with the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation - listed on page 18
Journalist with Asempa FM - listed on page 7
Business News Editor with Asaase Broadcasting Company - listed on page 4
GhanaWeb is unable to independently verify whether any of the journalists attended.
The organizers after the close of the conference on December 12 will release a final list of attendees.
See the full list below:
Meanwhile, former Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has demanded a probe of Ghana’s list especially in a time of economic headwinds.
Ghana became the third African country that included the name of the president’s child (ren) in the list.
Nigerian president Bola Tinubu’s son Seyi is on their African record 1411-member delegate list while Namibia’s Hage Geingob is under fire because his children were also sighted on the list.
