OccupyGhana member Sydney Casely-Hayford has challenged Radio Gold to sue the National Communications Authority (NCA) and stop its complaints after it was shut down.
Elements from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have decried the state action against Radio Gold, a major pro-opposition media house but Mr. Casely-Hayford said they are “just creating noise.”
“If the NCA have defaulted and have not given Radio Gold sufficient time to respond to what is going on, take the NCA to court and win your fight but let’s not go down this politically dirty road that we are pushing.”
He insists that the law must be made to work despite the complaints.
Management of Radio Gold described the closure of the station as extreme because it had made attempts to satisfy the NCA criteria.
Radio Gold also said it expected that the NCA action “would have been preceded with prior and adequate notification.”
A former flagbearer aspirant of the NDC for example, Sylvester Mensah, accused the government of trying to silence the NDC ahead of the 2020 elections.
But Mr. Casely-Hayford on The Big Issue said: “what the NDC party is doing is undermining the authority of all institutions that come up to play in the country.”
“It is taking this country back in time. It is disrupting or future progress and it is making things too complicated when we are trying to establish a certain rhythm and to be able to go forward.”
“There is nothing wrong if those two stations happen to be affiliates of your political party. It is not the issue. Rather what you should do is to advise them… [to] go to court and fight their fight and win their battle. That will be far more politically grounding,” he said.
Radio Gold was shut down alongside fellow pro-opposition radio station, Radio XYZ.
The NCA in a 2017 audit named Radio XYZ and Radio Gold among over 50 FM stations that were operating against its regulations.
It fined Radio XYZ GHs 4,090,000 in September 2017 for operating with a license that expired on 8th May 2016.
In the report, Radio Gold was fined GHs 61,330,000 for operating with a license that expired on 6th September 2000.
Source: citi
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WHAT CAN COME CAN COME BUT IT WILL NOT CHANGE THE OUTCOME IN THE 2020 GENERAL ELECTIONS. PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DECIDED WHERE THEIR VOTES WILL GO AND NO AMOUNT OF HARASSEMENT AND INTIMIDATION WILL EVER PREVENT THE CROSSING OF RUBBICORN.
Good advice but on a different lense, what happened with ***barred word*** guys from occupy ghana. you must know that nobody is above the law, yet you did things for political expediency.Gone are the days when people live on the achievement of family members.
I wonder why a political party that had ruled the country before and want to come back to power will support criminality.Radio Gold licence to operate has expired since 2000,nineteen good years. Attacking the EC boss, CID boss and almost any institution does not augur well for the party.
Exactly...…….