The Minister for Communications, Samuel Nartey George, through a directive to the newly appointed NCA Director General, Edmund Yirenkyi Fianko, has taken Okatakyie Afrifa-Mensah’s For The Records show off air.
We have learnt, through sources familiar with the matter, that the Minister for Communications issued a stern warning to the acting NCA DG to take off the show or lose his job.
“Rev. Ing. Yirenkyi, this show must not continue to be aired this evening. You either take it off air or you lose your job. I have the instructions of President John Dramani Mahama to halt this show immediately” Sam is said to have stated.
About 45 minutes into the For The Records show, almost 9 thousand people were watching across the country and beyond. Topics being discussed included drug addiction and the need for the appropriate authorities to help stop the importation of those drugs.
Other topical issues which would have featured on the show had to do with the unfair treatment being meted out to some Ghanaians by the Mahama administration.
Just before the other topics were to feature in the discussions, viewers could no longer see the show streaming live as it had been halted on Facebook.
Unperturbed, viewers rushed to the YouTube account of For The Records show, only to see that one also stalled. The disruption of the show on both platforms couldn’t have been coincidental.
We contacted sources at both the Communications Ministry and its agency, the NCA, to find out what might have caused the unusual disruptions, only to be informed that the Minister asked the NCA to halt the airing of the program.
According to the sources, Sam George said the show was hurting the ruling party and if steps are not taken to deal ruthlessly with Okatakyie and his show, the NDC government would be doomed.
More to come…