A member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has asked Ghanaians not to oppose the payment of the TV licence fee.
“We should not be averse to paying TV licence. I think it is an important good and can help GTV serve us and their staff much better,” he posted on Facebook.
Mr Otchere-Darko, however, disagreed with the establishment of special courts to enforce the payment.
In his opinion, GTV should “concentrate more on building the infrastructure that can help them to collect [licence].” “Ask yourselves: when was the last time you received a demand notice at home or in the office over nonpayment of TV licence?” he quizzed.
The reintroduction of the TV licence fee has been met with mixed reactions among the populace. Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo recently granted a request by the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) to establish special courts across the country to deal with persons who fail to pay their TV licence fees beginning Thursday, 4 January 2018.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Why do we resist anything that would help us improve on our system? I am going back to SA. What a country, Ghana! People can spend as high as GHC20,000 to buy a TV set yet work themselves up bcos of GHC38 per year? We will continue to be like this. Hababaaaaa!
You hypocrite......Pay for the state. You think Ghanaians are ***barred word***? Just wait...your time will soon be here If this were to be NDC......would you have been giving this senseless justification?
This is untrue, they rather want to increase their salaries and conditions of service which is not supported by appropriate value to the public. They want free money to chop. I don't even remember the last time i watched GTV programme or any of it stations
paying TV license is like throwing ur money away. I will NOT THROW AWAY my money
GTV is a failure because of its LAZY management who claim they have MBA and PHD yet the private media are doing better. Under proper hands, it will not need tv license. We will not pay. Sack the director and privatize it & stop this nooonsense about tv license
kwasssshiaa! GTV under the hands of a proper director will NOT NEED TV license. It is being run by the laziest public servant in Ghana that is why it is asking to CHOP from the public even though it also competes with private media who does not have the resources it has. WE WILL NOT PAY!!! Come and arrest me if u can prove I own and use a TV. What can u do? Abuuuwa! GTV is Ghana TOi-let Venue
GBC operates GTV (a channel for events that matter most to Ghanaians), which is broadcast nationwide on analogue terrestrial platform. Additionally, GBC runs five (5) digital channels namely, GTV Sports+ (a channel for sports), GBC 24 (a 24-hour news TV channel) and GTV Life (a religion and culture channel), GTV Govern (a governance channel), Obonu TV (a channel for the people of Greater Accra and window for the Ga-Dangbe) and ten (10) Regional radio stations, five (5) District radio stations in Ghana. GBC need money to run these channels and provide the contents that we so desire. Government pay salaries of operational staff and GBC use internal generator fund to pay top management staff. GBC needs to replace its obsolete equipment and cost of electricity a long is running the corporation down. Help save the corporation by paying your TV license. GBC is for all of us
TV license? So that the Idle Directors get a fat pay cheque for doing nothing? Please GTV TV license is a non starter. I subscribe to DSTV. I pay every month for it. I dont watch GTV. So why should I pay license to GTV?
We are in a competitive world....why do we have to pay for a license that is worthless.UTV is a private station and they have been able to think outside the box and they making it big time,why can't GBC do same,people have phd,masters and degrees and yet can't think.we will all go to jail if we have to be forced to pay.i will make sure I get a rabies infested dog in my house to bite any fooooollish mammal who comes to my house for tv license.
1diocy of the decade !!!! What sensible thing do i have to watch on GTV? I dont watch GTV, as a matter of fact, I have told my children GTV has died 30 yrs ago. GTV should go and look for their viewership and impose that 1diotic liscence on them. We the living do watch TV3 and Joy News freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee