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Blacklist politicians who use hate speech - Media urged
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) emerged as the party which uses the most abusive language on radio in the first campaign language report compiled by the Media Foundation for West Africa.
Media asked to avoid politicians who use hate speech
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Mr Kadri Abdul Rauf, the CPP Communications Director, told the Ghana News Agency that "Media practitioners need to resist becoming lackeys to such politicians in order to save Ghana from plunging into the abyss of politically motivated violence in this year's general election."
"Politicians will seek undue advantage for themselves in their relationship with and access to the media if you permit them. The temptation to seek undue advantage for themselves or otherwise compromise you in your reportage is even more compelling in an election year," Mr Rauf added.
According to him, his party is therefore coming out with training programmes for its communication officers so they could avoid hate speeches.
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He was also grateful to the Media Foundation for West Africa for its campaign language report on political parties which had indulged in hate speech.
The NPP recorded 27 incidents out of the 87 cases monitored while its main rival, the National Democratic Congress, (NDC) had 16 cases.
The others were: Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and the New Labour Party (NLP) – four (4) each; National Democratic Party (NDP) – two (2); and the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and People’s National Convention (PNC) – one (1) each.The report added that "for the radio stations, 18 out of the 40 monitored, recorded incidents of indecent expressions. Accra-based Montie FM topped the list with 22 incidents followed by Oman FM with 15 incidents, and Adom FM and Diamond FM with seven (7) each. All the incidents of indecent expressions recorded on Adom FM were also recorded on Nsawkaw-based Tain FM."
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