{"id":623012,"date":"2019-05-21T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/mahama-at-ndc-campaign.jpg\" alt=\"Shutting down radio statio"},"modified":"2019-05-21T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:55:42","slug":"shutting-down-radio-stations-unnecessary-call-nca-to-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/21\/shutting-down-radio-stations-unnecessary-call-nca-to-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutting down radio stations unnecessary; call NCA to order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"fff post-thumbnail\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"post_layout_5_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/mahama-at-ndc-campaign.jpg\" alt=\"Shutting down radio stations unnecessary; call NCA to order \u2013 Mahama to Nana Addo\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Former President,\u00a0 John Dramani Mahama wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene in what he terms as the unnecessary closure of some of the country\u2019s radio stations by the National Communications Authority (NCA).<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahama who believes the NCA\u2019s actions are politically motivated said the President\u2019s intervention will prove he is a human rights advocate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21V6j0MGMVc\" width=\"654\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not fair and so I want to appeal to Nana Addo, he says he is a human right advocate. The closure of these stations is totally unnecessary. It is obvious to everyone that there is some politics in there. The President is the Chief Executive Officer of the country. He can call the NCA to order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NCA \u2018s actions are clearly political. The timing of the closure of Radio Gold and XYZ should tell you. It was a time when both stations were carrying out an NDC press conference and everybody knows the inclination of those two stations. The decision to close other stations is an afterthought by NDC. NCA\u2019s objective is to build the communications and media industry and you don\u2019t build it by going regularly to close down radio stations. It is not fair,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The NCA has come under attack for closing about seven radio stations over license-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of the closed stations\u00a0are pro-opposition radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>Although the NCA has said that exercise will be conducted throughout the country to ensure that all FM stations in the country meet the licensing rules, it has been accused of acting in bad faith.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the stations claim that they had been making efforts to renew their\u00a0licenses\u00a0but the NCA failed to attend to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minority to join demo against shut down of radio stations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has backed the Free Media Vanguards\u2019 protest of the closure of some radio stations in the country by the National Communications Authority (NCA).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4HQuegVlEw\" width=\"654\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>The group plans to march in protest on Tuesday over what it described as the NCA\u2019s abuse of its powers and suppression of press freedom.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, the Minority in Parliament pledges its full support for Tuesday\u2019s March and announces its decision to participate in this all-important march which seeks to confront and defeat the cowardly forces of oppression and tyranny,\u201d the Minority said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Radio Gold, Radio XYZ shutdown not politically motivated \u2013 Oppong Nkrumah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has denied claims that the shutdown of the two pro-opposition radio stations, Radio XYZ and Radio Gold was out of political vendetta.<\/p>\n<p>He said the exercise cuts across all networks operating without the right authorization.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI am very sure some persons would speculate that this exercise appears to be an action against the two radio stations that may appear to be unaligned to the current administration. But the brief I have is that, this exercise cuts across various user of spectrums who have been cautioned that they had been operating without authorization for some years now. And this exercise has been going on for a year now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President,\u00a0 John Dramani Mahama wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene in what he terms as the unnecessary closure of some of the country\u2019s radio stations by the National Communications Authority (NCA). Mr. Mahama who believes the NCA\u2019s actions are politically motivated said the President\u2019s intervention will prove he is a human rights advocate. \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shutting down radio stations unnecessary; call NCA to order - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/05\/21\/shutting-down-radio-stations-unnecessary-call-nca-to-order\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Shutting down radio stations unnecessary; call NCA to order - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former President,\u00a0 John Dramani Mahama wants President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene in what he terms as the unnecessary closure of some of the country\u2019s radio stations by the National Communications Authority (NCA). 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