The Minister of Communication Hon Ursula Owusu Ekuful has defended the NCA directive to 131 FM stations in the country to settle all outstanding debts to the authority or face sanctions for their failure to do so.
According to the Minister, the Ministry is mandated to enforce rules and regulations regarding communication businesses in the country and will enforce such rules and regulations without fear, favour, malice or ill motives.
The Minister made the comments in an interview with journalists today at Parliament House on the directive by the NCA to some media houses across the country
She said laws made in the country must be enforced for development .
NCA sactioned some radio stations following the completion of a nationwide fm spectrum audit conducted this year to determine compliance of authorization holders with their authorization conditions and to determine which fm station was in operation or otherwise.
In view of these owners of the stations were supposed to pay for their expired licenses as well as other offenses which amounted to 1.8 billion Ghana cedis.
The Minority in parliament has since waded into the issue stressing that, the action of the NCA can lead to 5,000 unemployement in the job market.
“The NCA does not also appear to have considered the deleterious impact this will have on jobs in the sector. We estimate that close to 5,000 people working in the affected stations will be rendered jobless should the current action persist,” a statement by the minority, signed by the ranking member on the communications committee, Hon. A.B.A Fuseini stated.
Hon Ursula Owusu Ekuful described recent criticisms by the Minority in Parliament on the directive by the NCA as unfortunate .
She said the minority must rather help ensure that laws are enforced in the country without discrimination.
Source: Isaac Kwame Owusu/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Who in Ghana doesn't know that the NDC is full of a gang of nation wrekerrs? In government they perpetrated graft, corruptionn and insolence. In opposition nothing they say is sensible to the average observer. How can law makers work against efforts to enforce the very laws they are part in making? How many jobs has bus branding alone eluded Ghanaians of, not to mention SADA and the others? The quest to offer jobs must be complemented by the rule of law to make the country worth living in. In Short, these socialist boys never grow!
I can now see real intellectuals running the affairs of our beloved country. This govenment wont borrow more than necessary. The money to make things better is right here in this country. If thieveeery and corruptionnnn is stopped, the government will have more than enough money to develop this country. Patriotic citizens will not read meanings into this action. They must pay.
They have to pay. They make profit and they should pay their fees. This has nothing to do with politics. We can’t continue to be free giving society. We have to pay somewhere to benefit other sectors of the society like free shs.
This directives is nothing more than gagging silencing Radio Gold and Muntie fm. Imposing a penalty of over Ghc60 million on Radio Gold is just ***barred word***. If the action is motivated the desire to see to the demise of this two radio stations, then it is hitting a hard rock with its feet.
Hmmmm do you know many unemployment ban on galamesay has created. after all the noise NDC affilated stations cannot pay thier lincess hmmmm