The Ghana Police Service has urged operators of electronic communication networks, providers of electronic communications, and broadcasting services not to allow their platforms to be used in the promotion of charlatanic advertisements.
According to the Police, charlatanic advertisements are not just unethical but criminal and punishable under the laws of Ghana.
The Police Service in a statement said it has recorded a worryingly increasing number of advertisements aimed at luring people into dubious activities that are claimed to generate riches overnight.
“These charlatanic activities are assuming serious security implications for our society as a whole. The activities which often begin with misleading advertisements on some mainstream and social media platforms lure unsuspecting members of the public, including children, and deceive them into engaging in dubious acts, in the hope of getting rich overnight.
“Police investigations have recently shown that the upsurge in such activities has contributed to serious crimes such as defrauding by false pretenses, kidnapping, and even murder. Some recent notorious cases, attributable to the phenomenon include the Mankesim murder case, where the suspects under the pretext of sending their victims abroad, murdered them for ritual money and the Kasoa case where two teenage boys murdered their colleague also for ritual money.” the statement said.
The Police Service said in order to tackle this menace, it has intensified its enforcement efforts across the country alongside education of all relevant stakeholders on the position of the law on the matter.
“We would like to urge the public to be wary of charlatanic advertisements in both mainstream and social media and work together with the Police to ensure the safety and security of all persons as we work to maintain law and order in the country,” the statement added.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Well said, why can't government send a bill to parliament to be passed into law banning these 419 money doublers from TV screens. People should think and think again. These 419 guys don't hate themselves such that if they know how to make plenty money for others, why can't they do it for themselves. How can someone renting a single room in some obscure Conner somewhere tells you he can make you rich, how. How can someone join trotro to a TV station and tell you he can make money for you to buy a car. How can someone sleeping on a mat on the bare floor, you enter his room and looking at the surroundings in his immediate environment he's able to convince you that he can make you rich. Where on earth will someone take money from as charges to make same money for you. You just can't tell what goes into the thinking of people who fall victims to these charlatans and yet the authorities sit unconcerned. These are some of the ***barred word*** that make people think military regimes ensures a no ***barred word*** society that democratic ones. Freedom cannot be absolute. Now we are begging for 3 billion dollars and we have Ghanaians who can make this money for us? The military should locate and pick these charlatans up, send them to bank of Ghana to feel it with dollars, if they fail to, cane them properly because they are wicked. People should open their eyes. How do you go to a bachelor looking for a lady to marry. Those gullible people going to these 419 mallams/ priest, these is what you are doing .