NDC AGENDA: TV 3 AGENDA

One of the powerful prayers of glorifying God, in the Holy Catholic Church, is the Glory be, which in Latin, is prayed “Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto, Sicut Erat In Principio, Et Nunc, Et Semper, Et In Saecula Saeculorum, Amen.” In English “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning it is now and ever shall be, World without end, Amen.”

In what I will entitled, SEIP series, from Sicut EratIn Principio meaning As It Was In The Beginning, I begin a series of Opinions, to draw Ghanaians attention to the modus operandi of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in which it will always convince Ghanaians about how anti-Ghanaian the NPP government and party are, only to win sympathy and get re-elected to come and continue from where they ended, milking the country dry,in the most corrupt manners.

Ghanaians should not forget too soon, when in 2007/2008, in the era ofour economic boom, the NDC lied big time bylabelling the J.A. Kufuor Administration, as a very corrupt one. With fake bank statements of ministers of stateshowing huge balances to indicate stealing from the public purse, to lying about a ship loaded with gold belonging to NPP ministers that sunk on high seas, Ghanaians decided to reject the NPP in 2008.

These series will in due course, come out with how the NDC hit the ground running in the area of corruption and brought down to zero, all the gains Kufuor made.

I will beginby throwing light on journalists and media houses and I start with TV 3.

TV 3, was established in 1997, under the NDC era of J.J. Rawlings, by a Malaysian company, Sistem Televisyen Malasia Berhad. In 2011, it was taken over by a private Ghanaian company, Media General Ghana Ltd, owned by NDC gurus. One name being speculated, here, is Totobi Quakyi.

TV 3 is a privately owned media house in Ghana. Among the most watched free-air-television, TV 3 is very popular for its showing of Mexican telenovelas, Korean series and foreign movies.

Ghanaians would remember that where TV 3 is currently located was the site and offices of a state institution, Ghana Films. If TV 3 is a private company, then how much did it pay for that property? I do not remember Ghana Films put under divestiture, but, with the NDC, anything can be possible.

The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and NDC would always proclaim that they are ordained to lead this country and are there to alleviate poverty. Yet, instead of using the station to promote Ghanaian based movies, i.e., Kumawood, it chooses to air Mexican telenovelas, Korean and Indian movies. To further kill the interest in Ghanaian movies, TV 3 as effectively adopted the Akan Twi as voice-over for these foreign movies.

TV 3, chooses to use Ghana’s scarce foreign reserves, to import into this country, movies that have different and conflicting cultures from ours. Because the importation of these foreign movies seriously affects our currency, the cedi. The cedi will go chasing the dollar. And who is the winner? The shareholders, of course.

Today, by the acts of TV 3, the Ghanaian youth is encouraged to rebel against our very decent cultures which aim at the good upbringing and responsible humanity of the Ghanaian.

Speculations that TV 3 indeed belong to some NDC members can be justified by this media house’s partisan approach to national issues and its persistent attacks on NPP governments.

The PNDC gate-crashed into Ghana’spolitical scene in 1981 with the clarion call for all Ghanaians to patronize Ghanaian products, even though the NDC came out in 1997 and placed a ban on some made-in-Ghana goods and services.

During that era, where a new version of socialism was introduced and the West, labelled as criminals, we were told that we should “Grow What We Eat, And Eat What We Grow!”Konkonte was elevated and placed on the table of kings and Rawlings went on to warn those who discredited“tie-and-dye” wear, when the people of Kumasi labelled it “Adjoa Yankey” after that song in which someone was being encouraged not to give up on her state of poverty.

Hope that Ghanaians would soon be patronising Ghana, collapsed, when TV 3, the media house owned by the NDC, could come out on prime time to discredit, a Ghanaian product, during the J.A. Kufuor administration. Agric minister, Major Courage Quashigah (Rtd), went all out to promote local rice, for its richness in nutrients and palatability. Yet, TV 3, used its prime time, to educate its viewers about how bad Ghanaian rice was.It selected and interviewed some people in the Odor Rice area who all discredited and condemned our local rice.

Today, TV 3 uses its prime-time programmes to attack everything NPP, even if the government comes out with policies and activities that would benefit Ghanaians, especially the poor and down trodden.

It is rather very sickening how people parading the corridors of TV 3 and call themselves journalists would always stick to one side of the story, denying viewers the opportunity to judge things for themselves.

Sicut Erat In Principio, the NDC agenda continues and together with some of the media houses, they seek to the downfall of Ghana.

Hon. Daniel Dugan

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s stance.