Failure To Arrest Those Behind Counterfeit National Review Newspaper - An Indictment of Officialdom?

Not too long ago, I was invited  (summoned would probably be the most  appropriate word, I guess) by the executive secretary of the National Media Commission (NMC), to appear before him, in connection with a newspaper title registered at the NMC by me.


Apparently the NMC had received complaints about a front-page photograph in a newspaper,  the title of which, though registered by me with the NMC, was in fact a publication I actually had nothing to  do with,  whatsoever.


As Providence would have it, when I went to see the NMC's executive secretary,
I had not  (and incidentally still haven't -  even as we speak)  been able raise the  funding necessary to enable me start publishing the National Review newspaper that I had registered with the NMC.


Since I refuse to accept funding that comes attached with strings that entail losing  editorial  independence, I will have to find an innovative way to set my multi-media publishing company up, which  ensures its  editorial independence.


That will enable my National Review  to fight for the national interest at all material times,  and be independent politically. It is a work in progress, dear reader.


This being Ghana, some of the few people who have seen  my concept paper for that multi-media  project, have turned around to steal parts of it. Par for the course, naturally.


And in a byzantine society,  in which the third-rate often do incredibly well -  simply  because  they are  well-connected -   such characters often act with complete impunity and get away with a great deal:  including counterfeiting newspapers  that might even possibly endanger  national security someday.


Yet, such is the power wielded by the media in a free and liberal  society,  such as ours, that when it comes to what many consider to be the fourth branch of government,  in a constitutional democracy, the state must never countenance criminal behaviour in the media - such as the  fraudulent use of  registered newspaper titles by the criminally-minded.


In the light of all the above, with respect, the question I would like the NMC,  the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service,  to answer,  is: Are they waiting for the criminal minds abusing freedom of expression in such egregious fashion - as is the case with that bogus National Review -  to publish an abomination that might set our nation aflame, before they finally move to arrest those nation-wreckers now being allowed to get way with that monstrosity, although the BNI is fully aware of their identities?


The continued failure to arrest those behind the counterfeit so-called National Review newspaper, is an indictment of officialdom - in this particular instance  the NMC, the BNI and the CID. Pity.


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