It’s a lazy investigation to blame Kasoa’s ritual murder on TV spiritualists – NMC President

Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo, Chairman, National Media Commission

Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafo, Chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), says linking the murder of 10-year-old boy in Kasoa by two of his friends to the proliferation of spiritualists on television is a lazy way to investigate .

Ghanaian Police Department of Awutu Ofanko District Court said suspects Felix Nyarko and Nicholas Kini horribly murdered their friend Ishmael Mensah with the intention of using parts of his body for money rituals .

Police said the suspects during questioning confessed to discovering a spiritualist on television, who told them to bring in the amount of GH ¢ 5,000, to help them instantly become billionaires.

But speaking to Joy FM in a report monitored by GhanaWeb on Tuesday, Boadu-Ayeboafo said, “To put on a charge sheet that this is the reason why they did this, I think it’s a very lazy Girl.”

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 Coca-Cola, a suburb near the Great Lamptey-Mills school in Amanfro, Accra.

This has sparked anger among a cross section of Ghanaians over the rise of spiritualists and Mallam’s programs on television that promise unreasonable ways to get rich quick for unsuspecting young people.

Boadu-Ayeboafo continued, “If the indictment sheet says they say they watch TV, that’s why they did it, then I think maybe that’s a bad excuse for them. .

We should bemoan some of the things that we see on TV and all that. But to dispute this [such] a heinous crime like this [is due] just the fact that someone has been watching TV, I think that’s too far-fetched.

He noted that the NMC, according to the laws of the land, cannot interfere with the work of any news outlet, but rather that the NMC can only call on media owners, “to be decent in the way they are working. fulfill their responsibilities ”.

The two suspects were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They are expected to reappear in court on April 20.