General News of Wednesday, 18 August 2021Source: rainbowradionline.comFormer President John Dramani Mahama has opined that the closure of radio stations in Ghana has set a bad precedence. Addressing the chiefs and people in the Upper East region on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, he directed his message to President Akufo-Addo saying, the closure of the stations has set bad precedence because the procedure delayed the affected stations in renewing their license. So today government can say that a radio station has delayed in paying its license fee and so we are shutting you down. “When I talk about it I talk about it because of the precedence it can set . The regulator also imposed fines on a number of stations ranging from GHC50,000 (US$11,000) to GHC61,000,000 (US$13.8 million) depending on the infraction and the duration the infraction persisted.

Source: GhanaWeb August 17, 2021 20:15 UTC