The Government of Ghana has protested a Cable News Network (CNN) documentary for its poor reflection of efforts by government to address the detestable practice of child labour on the Volta Lake.
CNN, in the past week, has been airing a documentary which highlights the history and impact of the practice but does not highlight the efforts of the state in addressing the situation.
Government on Friday, March 1, 2019, protested the documentary and the fact that it fails to highlight efforts in addressing the situation.
Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, in a telephone conversation and a subsequent letter to CNN, said while GoG acknowledges the practice, it has worked in the last decade to curb it leading to significant successes.
Government of Ghana and CNN have, however, agreed to collaborate on a sequel highlighting government’s efforts to eradicate cases of child labour on the lake.
CNN, through its producer and Executive Editor, Leif Coorlim, said the state had been given an opportunity in the documentary to update on its efforts to resolve the challenge but was willing to offer a more comprehensive platform to outline the resolution of the practice.
The documentary featured an assembly member of the Krachi West District in the Volta Region, Prince Latif Oyekunle, who said, “Government is aware of the problem and is working on strategies to rescue the children from their “masters”. We haven’t started implementation yet but we have discussed it as the executive committee meeting and at some general assembly meetings. ”
Ahead of the sequel, CNN has agreed to grant the government of Ghana a platform to respond to the suppositions in the documentary. It is expected that the said response will air later this week.
Additionally, the sequel is expected to highlight the successes chalked so far in dealing with the practice.
Source: Daily Guide
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@Lio n j.... please.... read a science book or watch a documentary or whatever you want but please... ***barred word*** if you don't have knowledge to talk about something. Please. No melanin is albinism.... Not for being a white person you don't have melanin... please... hahaha so sorry but I have to laugh. Black people, white people... doesn't matter. We all have melanin, if you suffer of a non melanin synthesis in your body is because you suffer ALBINISM.
Why do You worry about external image when people are suffering inside? Who cares about what CNN shows? Let them show to the world why they have pale skin. Even the chimpanzee has melanin, they don't. The white man lacks melanin, even dogs have melanin. The white man's inferior skin is making him do all this! Let them show whatever they want to show, we are better than them in every way. No black man will send Ebola to kill thousands of people. No black man will manufacture HIV.
Why not protest against 80 percent ExxonMobil oil deal? Why don't you protest against the printing of our cedi by the white man? Why not protest against the white man forcing GMO on us even though more than half of the organic foodstuffs produced in the country gets rotten in the farms? Why not protest against the the white man interference in the running of the country? Why not protest against the steeeling of gold, oil, timber, manganese, bauxite through the vehicle called concession??. Wisdom has eluded the NPP.
There they go again! the west has seen that Ghana under Nana Addo is making progress. Look at their USE*&)LESS report! The west has NOTHING good to offer Africa, Africa must chart her own path. They always want us to depend on them. NEVER, NO MORE SLAVERY!
haha. America has dirty laundry too . Play it fair & square. Stop crying wolf.