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The chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC) played down speculation that the murder of a 10-year-old boy in Kasoa was influenced by the proliferation of spiritualists on national television.
Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo sees the link as a lazy way to approach the murder investigation which saw two teenagers, Felix Nyarko and Nicholas Kiki horribly murder their friend, Ishmael Mensah with the intention of using his body parts for rituals.
“To put on a charge sheet that this is why they did this, I think it’s a very lazy investigation,” he said on Newsnight.
Police say the suspects – aged 16 and 18 respectively – confessed that a spiritualist they discovered on national television agreed to help them instantly become billionaires by demanding a human being and a sum of 5,000 ¢.
The two, according to the police indictment sheet, admitted that they killed 10-year-old Ishmael by hitting a club against his neck.
This was after luring him into an unfinished building under the pretext of selling him a video game in Lamptey, a suburb of Kasoa in the central region.
This development has sparked the anger of a cross section of Ghanaians over the apparent increase in the number of Spiritualists and Mallams on television promising unreasonable ways to get rich quick for unsuspecting youth.
Gone are the days when you will find educational and entertaining content on almost every television station in Ghana… Nowadays, if it is not the pastors who cheat on people, it is the juju men who run the show. It’s high time we spoke for them #StopMoneyRitualsOnTv
– ANGEL TOPEDO 🤺 (@ThoughtPillow) April 6, 2021
At first it was next to the fire, Cantata, Osofo Dadzie, Taxi Driver, Key Soap concert night and other beautiful Gh series full of moral lessons on TV, but now you will turn on your TV and whatever else you want. see is “b3gye sika” Komfo) nso ka tv station fa wo ho b3n? #StopMoneyRitualsOnTV
– Ama Darlington🇬🇭💖 (@darlyn_ama) April 6, 2021
However, the president of the NMC considers that the basis for this concern is questionable.
“We should bemoan some of the things that we see on TV and all that. But to blame this heinous crime like this just for someone watching TV, I think it’s too far-fetched, ”he said on Joy FM.
While admitting the importance of the Commission’s role in safeguarding content in the broadcasting space, he said the NMC remained a paper tiger as long as the broadcasting bill remained unmatched.
The purpose of the bill is to provide comprehensive legislation on broadcasting services regulated by the NMC and the National Communications Authority (NCA) in a constitutionally compliant manner.
The head of the NMC further indicated that this organization can only call on media owners “to be honest in the way they discharge their responsibilities”, and nothing more.
Meanwhile, the suspects were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The two are expected to reappear in court on April 20, 2021.
Investigators are also looking for the spiritualist who promised the duo riches in exchange for body parts.
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