{"id":63932,"date":"2014-11-11T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T06:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=63932"},"modified":"2014-11-11T06:55:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T06:55:20","slug":"scandalous-ghana-broadcast-legislation-prof-karikari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=63932","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s scandalous Ghana has no broadcast legislation &#8211; Prof Karikari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p>A Communications Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Kwame Karikari has said it is scandalous that Ghana is without a broadcast legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>He blames owners of commercial radio stations, most of who he said belonged to one political group or the other for the current situation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ayeboafoh, a seasoned media practitioner and trainer, was speaking at a roundtable discussion on &#8220;Media Ethics and Transparency in Frequency Allocation&#8221; in Kumasi, jointly STAR Ghana and the Graphic Communications Group Limited.<\/p>\n<p>The lecturer argued that such owners tend to benefit from the current state of affairs and would not want it to change.<\/p>\n<p>He called for a radical restructuring of the current National Communications Authority (NCA) to embrace the National Media Commission (NMC) which by law is to sanction frequency allocation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Karikari said the NCA should be consigned to the technicalities while the NMC, which has been mandated by the Constitution to manage the media to deal with the allocation.<\/p>\n<p>He called also for an independent regulatory body in a multi-party form such as parliament to correct the current structure where the NCA is only accountable to the communications minister, a situation he said does not make the body independent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/graphic.com.gh\/news\/general-news\/33542-it-s-scandalous-ghana-has-no-broadcast-legislation-prof-kwame-karikari.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Graphic Online<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Communications Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Kwame Karikari has said it is scandalous that Ghana is without a broadcast legislation. He blames owners of commercial radio stations, most of who he said belonged to one political group or the other for the current situation. Mr Ayeboafoh, a seasoned media practitioner and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-63932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}