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Gov’t will not block social media during elections – Prosper Bani assures

The Minister of Interior Prosper Bani said the IGP’s statement was taken out of context. And he, therefore, decided to take “the occasion to clarify with the IGP on his out-of-context report on social media.”

 

The Minister of Interior Prosper Bani, says the government will not ban social media on election day, despite the proposal by the Inspector General of Police (IGP).

The IGP has recently reiterated that he still stands by his earlier intentions to ban social media during the election if need be.

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But Bani said the IGP’s statement was taken out of context. And he, therefore, decided took

He was speaking to a joint high-level delegation from the United Nations, the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Accra on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the special representative of the United Nations secretary general for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWA), Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has said the UN would not accept any attempts to ban social media in Ghana during elections.

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