President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation to liaise with the National Communications Authority (NCA) to immediately restore the broadcast of sixty-four (64) radio stations affected by the regulator’s action.
The President believes that regulatory compliance must take into account the need to uphold and enhance media freedom, and that requiring radio stations to shut down while awaiting the regularization of their authorization could limit the space for expressing such freedoms.
A statement signed by Spokesperson to the President Felix Kwakye Ofosu said the President has asked the sector minister to work with the NCA on a reasonable timeframe within which the affected stations should regularize their authorization.
Briefing Parliament, the Minister of Communications, Digitalization and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George says following the clemency offered to some defaulting Radio stations of the NCA, the affected stations have been given a 30day grace period to regularize their breaches.