NPP leads media chart on indecent expressions for six consecutive weeks

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) said for the sixth consecutive week, officials and supporters of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) led in the use of indecent expression by making ten out of the 17 indecent remarks on radio.

Mr Kennedy Agyapong, the NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency, alone made about a third (six) of the indecent expressions recorded; three were made during the Boiling Point programme on his own radio station, Oman FM, and the other three, in a telephone interview on Classic FM’s Kokrokoo programme.

In a statement to the Ghana News Agency in Accra on Monday signed by Professor Kwame Karikari MFWA Executive Director said the 17 indecent expressions captured during the week under review September 23 – 29, (26th week of monitoring) were recorded on nine (9) political discussion programmes.

The statement explained that Political activities of the NPP and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) were the main subjects of discussion during which the indecent expressions were made.

The breakdown of the 17 indecent expressions indicates that: Insulting/ Offensive Comments – seven; Unsubstantiated Allegations – seven; and Innuendoes – three.

Reports were received on 121 programmes aired on all the 31 radio stations selected for the project.  Nine (9) out of the 121 programmes recorded a total of 17 indecent expressions.

On Expressions Used and Political Party Affiliation, the MFWA statement noted that one out of the 17 indecent expressions was a rebroadcast, the remaining 16 were indecent remarks made by eleven individuals belonging to the NPP and the NDC.

According to the statement five of the eleven individuals who were affiliates/supporters of the NPP made a total of 10 indecent remarks and six other expressions were made by affiliates of the NDC.

Source: GNA