Head of Monitoring Unit of the Forestry Commission, Charles Owusu has called for a conference of fetish priests to be held in Ghana.
He was discussing the recent murder of an 11-year old boy by teenagers at Kasoa in the Central Region.
The suspects, Felix Nyarko, 16, and Nicholas Kini, 18, allegedly murdered Ishmael Mensah Abdallah for money rituals.
Charles Owusu wondered why the fetish priests are not creating money for Ghana to develop.
He noted that if the fetish priests indeed they have magical powers to manufacture or double money for people, they should use it for a noble cause by reviving Ghana s financial sector.
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Managing Partner at AFiBA Consulting, Jesse Agyepong has said the basis of media censorship of a programme must be made clear.
According to him, “If statements within the act or the bill are overly ambiguous and are left to the interpretation of the Committee members Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) should fight these every day to the extent that the ambiguity exit, we need to fight this every day.”
This comes at the back of National Film Authority’s (NFA) indication that effective May 1, 2021, no television station, cinema theatre or movie screening centre shall show any unclassified audiovisual content.
The NFA says it is stated in the Development and Classification Film Act 935 that all audiovisual content should be reviewed and classified before shown on any platform.
Former Deputy Minister for Information, Pius Enam Hadzide, has admonished the National Media Commission (NMC) to regulate Television and radio stations ensuring they don t show contents that showcase fetish activities.
Ritualists and spiritualists claiming to double money have proliferated media stations in the country.
The activities of these ritualists and spiritualists, some believe, majorly contribute to the quest for money rituals.
For the purpose of money ritual, two teenage suspects, Felix Nyarko, 16, and Nicholas Kini, 18, allegedly murdered an 11-year old boy named Ishmael Mensah Abdallah at Kasoa last Saturday.
The ghastly murder has revived concerns on the dangers associated with influx of the money doublers and ritual activities on TV and radio stations across the nation.
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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked President Akufo-Addo to have his government expedite investigations into all unresolved crimes as a way of pulling the plugs on criminal impunity in the country.
Condemning the recent ritual murder of a 10-year-old boy at Kasoa, Central Region, the party, in a statement signed by Communication Director Sammy Gyamfi said: “We further wish to draw the attention of the Akufo-Addo government to the plethora of crimes whose resolution has dragged on interminably, thus, encouraging the perpetuation of the culture of impunity”.
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Since news broke about the killing of 10-year-old Ishmael Mensah Abdallah by his friends for ritual purposes last Saturday, Ghanaians are yet to come to terms with the rather sad incident.
Class Four pupil, Ishmael, was allegedly killed on Holy Saturday by two teenagers, Nicholas Kini, 18, and Felix Nyarko, 16, at Coca Cola, close to Lamptey Mills, in the Ga South Municipality near Kasoa in the Central Region.
The incident has been difficult for many people to comprehend, considering the ages of the alleged perpetrators.
As grotesque as the incident is, the Daily Graphic believes that it is time parents sat up and lived up to their responsibility of providing the requisite parental guidance for their children.