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Minority Leader
October 29, 2021
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu is advocating for the National Media Commission (NMC) to be situated in a position to respond to social media not as a primary toxic source of misinformation adding that social media should be seen as part of mass media.
According to him he was part of the Ghanaian digital migration story, the group that worked for Ghana to migrate from analog to digital, but was quick to point out that ten years down the line the nation has not declared a cut-off point to digital migration.
“Therefore, the NMC as part of your mandate you should request for the sector Minister and stakeholders to declare a cutoff date for Ghana’s terrestrial, radio and television migration”.
He added that Ghana would benefit from some spectrums which would allow it to have more fm’s and television stations which could move to three. “We should be able to achieve that as a country even today the world is moving towards five G plans, and NMC should set the tone to declare the country’s cutoff date so that we would be fully operational and functional on the digital platform”.
Mr. Iddrisu made this comments on Thursday, October 28, 2021 when the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs organise an engagement with the core leadership of parliaments Committees with the National Media Commission.
The Minority Leader commended the sector Minister for his support of constitutional bodies like the Electoral Commission, National Media Commission and Commission for Human Right and Administrative Justice and has remain religiously continuously and bemoaned the inadequate funding that goes to them.
“ I know the struggle you went through to get monitors in the regions, how can you perform well when you cannot monitor in the regions, but the Majority Leader has come to learn in government that there are financial constrains whiles in opposition it was easy for him to blame president Mahama”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com