The rate at which fake Mallams, money ritual activities are been displayed on our TV stations in Ghana nowadays is alarming and unthinkable and has becomes a public concern.
Our media space has been polarized and the inability of the authorities to regulate tv contents more especially is doing the youth more harm than good.
Following the murder of an 11-year-old boy allegedly by two teenagers at Lamptey Mills, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central Region, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Minister of Information, has said it loud and clear that there are adequate laws to deal with the spiritualists, money doublers and fraudsters who advertise their activities on television. He further stated that there are existing laws that can help regulators in Ghana’s media space to deal with such issues.
Oppong Nkrumah has made such statement but close to five months now, we are yet to see its manifestation. The killing and murders have now increased than ever before. I’m only asking Oppong Nkrumah where are the laws? We are still waiting.
On 2rd September, 2021, a man butchers 27yrs old wife to death, and attempts suicide at Assin Koforidua.
Again, on 31st August, 2021, a man butchers wife and hangs himself. According to the Interior Minister, Ghana has recorded 144 murder cases in the first quarter of 2021.
If measures are not put in place to regulate such contents on the media, the current government will only be given the police unnecessary assignments which could have been dealt with at a goal.
When I was a child, anytime the school bell is rung for closing, one becomes happy because you are coming back home as they say, “Home sweet home ” but due to the level of insecurity in Ghana, Ghanaians prefer leaving in another man’s land over their own their Motherland.
The situation in Ghana is beyond partisan politics, experts must be fall on to assist curtail the killings and murders in Ghana.
NANA ADDO MUST FIX THE MESS IN THE COUNTRY.
BY BOLA RAY JNR,
A GHANAIAN BY BIRTH,
A CITIZEN WITHOUT A JOB.
