Former Board Chairman of the Ghana Airports Company Limited, Paul Adom-Otchere, has proposed the establishment of dedicated courts to handle media-related cases in Ghana.
Speaking at the “Broadcasting at the Crossroads: Shaping the Future of Ghana’s Electronic Media” forum organised by the Africa Media Bureau in Accra on Friday, September 26, 2025, Adom-Otchere noted that while Ghana has a vibrant judiciary, there are no courts specifically set aside for communication disputes.
“Some of the areas we could explore are that there are no courts, and we do have a vibrant judiciary; there are no courts set aside to hear communication-related cases. If there are yet, then I don’t know yet,” he suggested.
He further suggested that decisions by the National Communications Authority (NCA) to sanction or revoke the licences of radio and television stations should be subjected to parliamentary oversight.
“The other thing is that when the NCA makes a decision that a radio or TV station has fallen foul in a way, they have to terminate their licences, we can introduce another level where they have to submit that to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communication that these are the categories of radio stations that we’re going to terminate their licences and parliament can hold a hearing, we can improve on these things,” he said.
Adom-Otchere also urged the public to place greater trust in government institutions, stressing that Ghana’s democratic system has been functional for 35 years.
He observed that mistrust in government led to missed opportunities in the country’s digital migration process, particularly with sidelining the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC).
“Let us trust governments, we have a democracy, it has been working for 35 years, we get too suspicious of governments, this same suspicion led us to ignore GBC in leading the digital migration, we would have been done by now. Let’s trust the process,” he stated.
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