The Bono and Ahafo Regional Correspondent for the Daily Graphic, Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah, has gone on retirement after 31 years of active service.
Of these years, 19 were spent with the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL).
In appreciation of God’s mercies and protection throughout his career to retirement, a special thanksgiving service was held for him at the Glory Congregation of the Presbyterian Church at Dr Berko, a suburb of Sunyani in the Bono Region.
The service, themed: “Retirement Thanksgiving Service in honour of Mr Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah,” was also meant to thank God for the knowledge and strength given to him to work for 31 years during which time he chalked up numerous achievements on the journalism journey.
Mr Adu-Gyamerah was joined by his family and friends, including his wife, Comfort Pokuaah, children-Vera, Nancy and Victor Adu-Gyamerah, his grandchildren, some staff of the GCGL, politicians, as well as some heads of institutions and organisations
Notable among the well-wishers were the Tain District Chief Executive (DCE), Dr Lucy Acheampong; the Ashanti, Bono and Tamale Zonal Manager of the GCGL, Martin Omari Sarfo, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Media Foundation, Raphael Godlove Ahenu, among other dignitaries.
After the service, Mr Adu-Gyamerah was helped by his family and some of the dignitaries to cut his 60th birthday cake.
In his special sermon, the Bishop of the Wenchi Diocese of the Methodist Church of Ghana, Rt Rev. Alfred Appiah Andam, who also led the thanksgiving service, urged journalists to be truthful in their reportage.
Background of Mr Adu-Gyamerah
After his secondary school education at Berekum Secondary School, he proceeded to the Ghana Institute of Journalism where he earned a Diploma in Journalism upon completion in 1992.
He undertook National Service with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) and after that, he continued to work as a stringer in Sunyani for the GNA for two years, before being fully employed in December,1995.
His work took him to Goaso, now the Ahafo Regional capital, in the year 2000 where he served for two-and-a-half years before being transferred to the headquarters of the GNA in Accra.
He rose through the ranks to become a Chief Reporter at GNA before being employed on August 1, 2004 by the GCGL.
In the course of his career, Mr Adu- Gyamerah won nine awards.
These were;the Best Student in Arts and Culture subject during the graduation of the 1992 cohorts of the Ghana Institute of Journalism, Best Journalist, Parliamentary Reporting by the Ghana Journalists Association in 2011; Best Journalist, Disability Reporting (Print) at the 23rd GJA Awards 2017.
Also, he won the Best Journalist, Domestic Tourism, at the 25th GJA Awards, 2018; Overall Best Journalist, Bono, Bono East and Ahafo GJA Awards in 2019, and again in 2019, he was adjudged the Best Journalist, Disability Reporting, at the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo GJA Awards.
Source: myghanadaily
