Public Education: NCCE Begs Media For Airtime

The Ashanti Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Arthur Wilson, has appealed to the various media houses in the country to soften in their demand for money before giving them airtime and space to sensitize the public on civil issues that help reshaping people thoughts.

Arthur Wilson said his outfit is not financially sound and that will not prevent them from their core mandate in educating the public on their civil rights and responsibilities and the media, been a stakeholder in the disseminating of public information, should rather offer free time and space.

The Ashanti Regional Director made the appeal during one day training workshop for selected journalists drawn from the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East, Upper West and Western regions, held in Kumasi on Tuesday, June 19, 2108.

The workshop was organized by the commission to equip journalists with skills to understand and appreciate civil related issues to guide their content development and reportage.

“People don’t hear from us often as they would have wished, apart from general elections, not that we are not capable, the money some media houses demand from the NCCE prevents us from their performing our core duties if educating the public on their civic rights and responsibilities. So we are pleading with you people, as partners in ‘crime’ to help us by offering us free time and space,” he pleaded.

Mr. Wilson pointed out that “the core mandate of the commission is to promote and sustain Ghana’s democracy through civil education and the media is the best channel through which it can be achieved, and shirking from these responsibilities will have serious consequences on the country’s democracy.”