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The Nationwide Communications Authority(NCA) of Ghana embarks on an exercise in order to shut down 49 TV channels for operating without Authorisations –and this move enhances after Nana Agradaa’s police arrest.
According to the Ghana government Company, it forms part of a consistent monitoring exercise conducted upon various Satellite Free-to-Air Tv platforms using the Broadcast Supervising System (BMS) and the Stereo Spectrum Monitoring System (RSMS).
They further state that the particular monitoring revealed that several channels were operating without having valid Authorisations, contrary to Area 2(4) of the Electronic Marketing communications Act 775 of 08, which states that, ‘Except as provided by this Action or any other law not really inconsistent with this Act, an individual shall not operate. The broadcasting system or give a broadcasting service without a rate of recurrence Authorisation by the Authority’.
Consequently, forty-nine (49) channels are already identified to be operating with no valid Authorisations from the Specialist and is being shut down appropriately.
Below is the list of TELEVISION stations that have been identified to stay violations and are due to become shut down:
This move comes after after the popular fetish priestess who is also the owner of satellite tv channel Thunder TV, Patricia Asiedua, popularly known as Nana Agradaa was arrested following the station was found to become operating illegally.
A raid by a joint team associated with Police and National Safety Intelligence Operatives, in cooperation with the National Communications Power on Tuesday, April twenty, 2021, at the premises from the satellite television stations; Thunder TELEVISION and Ice1 TV to get illegally transmitting without permit, at Kasoa in the Main Region.
The arrest from the popular television fetish priestess was confirmed by the Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) of Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful within a Facebook post.
The popular self-styled priestess makes claims regarding an ability to double profit broadcasts on the TV station.
The Minister stated Nana Agradaa has accepted to “this illegality and it is currently in custody helping with further investigations”.