President Nana Akufo-Addo has advised the management of all closed down radio stations to follow the right procedures to have their stations reopened.
The President said because he was not the one who shut down the stations, it “would be difficult for me to be the one to unlock them. The procedures are there. I am surprised that a year or so later those procedures are not [being] used to get the radio stations back on track.”
“I don’t really think there’s any big secret about it. The law is very clear…” he said.
President Akufo-Addo gave the advice in response to a request by the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo on granting amnesty to closed down radio stations in the country.
Mr. Ampofo said reopening the stations will help boost public sensitization on the Coronavirus outbreak in Ghana.
“In our effort to ensure that we reach out to the majority of our countrymen and women, I am appealing to His Excellency [Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo] to grant amnesty and get those radio stations that have been closed down to use their frequencies to reach out to the people and to reach out to them in various languages so that we will be able to reach out to every nook and cranny of this country,” Mr. Ampofo appealed when he together with other political parties met with the President last Friday to deliberate on the COVID-19 pandemic.
