President Mahama has instructed the Communications Minister to promptly resume broadcasting on the 64 radio stations that were impacted by the regulator’s decision.
Samuel Nettey George, Minister of Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovation, has been instructed by President John Dramani Mahama to coordinate with the National Communications Authority (NCA) in order to promptly restore the transmission of sixty-four (64) radio stations that were impacted by the regulator’s decision.
On Thursday, June 12, 2025, the president released a statement outlining, “The President believes that regulatory compliance must take into account the need to uphold and enhance media freedom, and that requiring radio stations to shut down while awaiting the regularisation of their authorisation could limit the space for expressing such freedoms.”
“The President has asked the Minister to work with the NCA on a reasonable timeframe within which the affected stations should regularize their authorization,” said the statement signed by Felix Kwakye Ofosu, MP and the President’s spokesperson, as a show of the government’s dedication to the aforementioned belief.
Below is the Presidency statement regarding the closures of media outlets:
