Africa's media needs to wake up to cybercrimes' debilitating effects on national economies

That cybercrimes pose a real danger to national economies across Africa, and elsewhere on the planet Earth, in the AI era of the 4th, 5th and 6th industrial revolutions is not in doubt now. That threat is existential in nature strategically. No question. Full stop.

We must allow the new future being constructed for Africans to put at risk by cybercriminals. To quote part of a World Bank report: "The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement will create the largest free trade area in the world measured by the number of countries participating. The pact connects 1.3 billion people across 55 countries with a combined gross domestic product (GDP) valued at US$3.4 trillion. It has the potential to lift 30 million people out of extreme poverty, but achieving its full potential will depend on putting in place significant policy reforms and trade facilitation measures." End of quoted World Bank report.

That is why new laws are definitely needed urgently in nations such as Ghana, to ensure that all those found guilty of cybercrimes, are jailed for life with hard labour, without the possibility of parole. The more responsible sections of Ghana's media landscape need to take that on board - and work closely with our nation's national security apparatus to help stem the activities of cybercriminals.

Personally, in view of the dangers of AI being leveraged by cybercriminals, one's humble view, is that only the death penalty can deter cybercrimes - which is why one feels that it is such a pity that the death penalty has been abolished in Ghana.

There is no doubt, dear critical-reader, that cybercriminals cause enormous harm worldwide to their victims, and turn countless innocent lives upside down, globally, with their egregious falsehoods and the unfathomable greed that drives them.

For that reason, one's prayer, is that all of them will roast in the hottest parts of hell, when they pass away, and die painful deaths wherever in the planet they breathe their last gasps of air at their passing. Shameless sods. Whatever be the case, dear critical-reader, Africa's media needs to wake up to cybercrimes' debilitating effects on national economies - and must help the continent's national security agencies to fight it to successfully to contain it: across a continent that is now the world's biggest free trade area. No question. A word to the wise...