Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, has called for stronger action to sanitize Ghana’s broadcast space.
The Minister warned against fake men of God, persons promoting get rich quick schemes, people bringing adult content onto Ghana’s airwaves.
Sam George made this known while speaking at Africa Media Bureau’s (AMB) Broadcasting at the Crossroads forum in Accra on September 26, under the theme “Aligning policy, technology and global best practices for a resilient media landscape.”
“Charlatans parading as men of God, men capital M, god small g instead of men of God, small m capital G, and running all kinds of frivolous schemes in the name of God need to be driven out of our airwaves like the temple with the regulatory whip,” he said.
Sam George then criticized the broadcast of money-doubling schemes and get-rich-quick programs by some fetish priests.
“Money doubling and get rich quick schemes being broadcast by unscrupulous fetish priests have no place in our public broadcast,” he stressed.
Sam ‘Dzata’ George then moved on to sexually explicit programming, insisting that Ghana must not allow obscenity to dominate its airwaves.
“Pornographic and sexually explicit content masquerading as adult relationship shows cannot be allowed to continue soiling the innocence of our national airwaves.”
The minister further stressed that commercial interests should not outweigh morality.
“There must be sanity and we must work together to achieve the same. We cannot put today’s profit ahead of tomorrow’s sanity,” he cautioned.
Sam George called on the regulator to treat these challenges as urgent policy issues and urged all stakeholders to develop a roadmap to restore integrity and quality to Ghana’s media landscape.
