Minister-designate for Communications Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says she never authorized the shutdown of any radio stations.
According to her, over 50 radio stations had to be closed down for failure to have renewed their licenses after their expiration thereof.
This, she said, followed an audit conducted by the National Communications Authority (NCA).
Appearing before the Appointments Committee of Parliament during her vetting on Monday, February 15, the Ablekuma West Member of Parliament said after the audit, it was noted the 625 radio stations were in operation in Ghana.
Out of that number, 452 were in operation while 173 were not yet in operation.
She said in 2017 when she took over as Minister of Communications, it was noted that 144 stations which have fallen foul of the law were only fined by the NCA to still be in business.
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Minister-designate for Finance Ken Ofori-Atta says he has safely arrived in the United States of America (USA) for his medical review post-Covid-19 complications.
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Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Minister-designate for Justice and Attorney-General, says the Ministry would collaborate with the Finance Ministry to release funds to recruit an extra 500 state attorneys, if given the nod.
Answering questions from members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, during his vetting, Mr Dame said the Akufo-Addo-led Administration, in its first term, recruited 110 state attorneys, bringing the total staff to 226.
However, the numbers were not sufficient to effectively perform the work of defending the state and government in court as mandated under Article 88 of the 1992 Constitution.
Commenting on the conditions of service of state attorneys, Mr Dame said though government had undertaken measures to improve those conditions, it was not satisfactory as there was insufficient desks and office spaces for them to work.