Mr Attah-Mensah
Samuel Attah-Mensah, popularly known for his immense contribution to the Ghanaian media space has explained the need for stiffer media space regulations. This comes after the news of the suspected Kasoa ritual killing of an 11-year-old boy by two juveniles broke out.
Currently, Felix Nyarko and Nicholas Kini who happens to be the suspected ritual murderers are standing trial. Overtime, several opinions and reports have suggested that, the two teenage suspects may have been influenced to take such action due to the content they watched on TV.
In an exclusive interview with Mr Attah-Mensah on Citi Tv’s Point of View, he pinned that, 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 made it loud adding that the regulation of the media space should begin with a “complete overhaul of all the guidelines and regulations that are used to guide and guard the media.”
Though 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 made it known that, the NMC does not currently hold the power to sanction media houses for such content.
He continued by emphasizing on the fact that, there is 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.
He said “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 have however been remanded in police custody on their first appearance in court on April 6, 2021 and are to reappear in court on April 20, 2021.
Source: www.urstrulypraiznews.com
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