The Media Commission would be supported with a new headquarters so that they can do their work properly, President John Dramani Mahama has promised.
According to him, the current headquarters where the Commission is located, is nothing to write home about.
Giving highlights of the party’s manifesto at the State House the President said, government will support the Media Commission to decentralize its operations and then we will provide it with a permanent and befitting office.
Government he revealed will committee more resources to the Media Development Fund for capacity building initiatives; ensure the enactment of the broadcasting bill, he added. President Mahama also promised to provide vulnerable households with free set up boxes as part of the processes to migrate onto the digital platform.
His second term will see the complete switch off from the Analogue platform, he stressed. The National Media Commission is an Independent Governance Institution that ensures and promotes free, independent and responsible media.
The National Media Commission, set up on July 7, 1993 by an Act of Parliament, National Media Commission Act 1993, Act 449 in pursuit of the provisions of Chapter 12 of the 1992 Constitution is enjoined among others, to take all appropriate measures to ensure the establishment and maintenance of the highest journalistic standards in the mass media, including the investigation, mediation and settlement of complaints made against or by the press or other mass media.
Source: GhanaWeb
