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Social, Political Commentators Should Be Decorous

By GNA
Social News Social, Political Commentators Should Be Decorous
OCT 3, 2018 LISTEN

The Executive Director of the Centre for Moral Education (CEMED), Mr Opoku Agyeman Prempeh, has appealed to social and political commentators to show decorum in their utterances during discussions on national issues.

He said the cherished traditional values of respect for the elderly and those in authority should be a guiding principle to all those who appeared on radio and television to discuss issues of national interest.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency on the rise of insults on the airwaves by people who called themselves social and political commentators, Mr Prempeh, said that trend must stop.

He said the flooding of the airwaves with insults, insinuations and vulgar utterances, especially against political, traditional and religious leaders as well as other people in high authority was degrading the cherished traditional moral values of the country.

Mr Prempeh said Ghanaian people were noted for their respect for authority and cultured mannerism, especially in public speaking and appearance, which was deeply rooted in time tested moral values.

It was therefore becoming abhorring for radio and televisions stations to allow people to openly insult others in the public.

Mr Prempeh said it was time television and radio stations took time to educate the people on the need to discuss issues passionately without insulting people.

He said CEMED, which was committed to promote and inculcate moral values in the youth to ensure their proper upbringing to sustain the country's time tested traditional moral values.

Mr Prempeh appealed to the youth to be humble and submit themselves to moral discipline so that people would give them the needed respect when they also grow up in future.

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