The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional Communications Directorate has rejected the Media Foundation for West Africa’s (MFWA) report suggesting that the party topped the list of users of abusive language on the airwaves.
The MFWA in its latest report on campaign language monitoring project claimed out of 40 radio stations monitored across the country, the NPP scored 27.
The incumbent governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) followed with 16 of such incidents on the airwaves.
But the Northern Regional NPP Communications Director, Mohammed Abdul Kudus has rejected the report in a Citi News interview.
According Mohammed Abdul Kudus who was fingered in the report for allegedly making unsubstantiated allegation against Dr. Sipa Yankey on Tamale based Diamond FM, the Media Foundation for West Africa report lacked credibility.
He recalled that the Media Foundation for West Africa in a similar fashion ahead of the 2012 general elections negatively portrayed the NPP in its reports.
“Run up to 2012 again NPP continuously topped their survey and which really intrigues me a lot.”
“There is a certain appropriation of foul language to the chaps of our opponents the NDC in particular and it is not for nothing that their founder had to name some of them as babies with sharp teeth.”
Mohammed Abdul Kudus challenged the Media Foundation for West Africa to logically prove the barometer of its report.
“I read that there is a certain competition on who uses foul language or uses abusive language and NPP actually is in the lead. I am not too sure their sampling techniques that allow them to zero on particular language radio stations.”
He called on discerning Ghanaians to treat the report with the contempt that it deserved.
“I believe that even if you go to town to ask the ordinary persons between the NPP and NDC who actually abuses or uses foul language I don’t think the NPP will come anywhere closer to the NDC.”
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By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah/Citifmonline.com/Ghana