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Kasoa ritual killing: Samuel Attah-Mensah calls for stiffer regulation of media space

Marian AnsahbyMarian Ansah
April 8, 2021
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The Chief Executive Officer of Citi FM/Citi TV, Samuel Attah-Mensah, has called for stiffer regulation of the media space, following the suspected ritual killing of an 11-year-old boy by two juveniles.

Two teenagers, Felix Nyarko and Nicholas Kini, are currently standing trial for allegedly killing an 11-year-old boy supposedly for money rituals.

Reports have suggested that the two teenage suspects may have been influenced to take such action due to the content they watched on TV.

Mr. Attah-Mensah on The Point of View on Citi TV said tighter regulation of the media space will end the dissemination of toxic content by the media.

“In my estimation, we should be hard on media regulation. We should review the laws and regulations that govern the media today. The media is very powerful. If we take it for granted, two years from now it will be very late to do anything.”

He believes the regulation of the media space should start from a “complete overhaul of all the guidelines and regulations that are used to guide and guard the media.”

Empower NMC

The National Media Commission (NMC) and the government have been blamed for failing to halt the dissemination of activities of self-acclaimed money doublers and spiritualists on national television since the incident occurred.

Mr. Attah-Mensah however insisted that the NMC does not currently hold the power to sanction media houses for such content.

He thus emphasized the need for the NMC to be empowered to crack the whip on media houses failing to abide by laid-down ethics in the discharge of their mandate.

“When you are outside the NMC, it is easier to say things like that but if you are in the NMC, you will know that even the so-called mandate has its own limitations. The best you can do is to call or draw the attention of media houses to ethical standards. Beyond that, the NMC has not been able to do anything because they are not empowered.”

The two suspects were remanded in police custody on their first appearance in court on April 6, 2021. They are to reappear in court on April 20, 2021.

Ghana has adequate laws to deal with money doublers, spiritualists on TV – Oppong Nkrumah

Speaking on the same programme, the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah insisted that there are existing laws that can help regulators in Ghana’s media space to deal with the issue of spiritualists, money doublers and fraudsters who advertise their activities on television.

According to him, the regulators only need to take advantage of those laws and ensure that they “bite harder” to stop such incidents from occurring.

The Ofoase Ayirebi legislator said it is for this reason he wrote to regulators such as the Bank of Ghana and the National Media Commission (NMC) to alert them about his outfit’s observation and some laws it has been empowered with.

“We’ve had reason to draw the attention of various regulators to some content on our media platforms that we think are unwholesome. We’ve had reason to draw the attention of various regulators that, in today’s body of laws, there are enough laws to deal with some of these things, and we think that they have the capacity and legal remit to deal with it now….We are at a juncture where I think gradually there is common ground now to deal with such issues.”

The Minister however assured that the Broadcasting Law currently being worked on will address any remaining loopholes existing law in the country.

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