Minister of Communications Madam Ursula Owusu Ekufful has justified her statement and decision about the shutdown of the three channels belonging to GBC.
A letter to the Director General of broadcasting company by the Minister explains that the move is to free up space on the DTT platform which she says it’s full.
According to Ursula Owusu, the NMC cannot compel the ministry to take back the directive and the fact still remains that the sole multi channel which broadcasting can be transmitted in this country for now is full in capacity, there is absolutely no space of reduction on it for us as a country and it is dangerous to be in this situation.
Ursula concluded by saying that the pending acquisition of an additional multiplex which will provide more capacity on that and it has absolutely nothing to do with spectrum it is the multiplex which has capacity and challenges and not spectrum and until such time as we acquire an additional multiplex to provide channels for broadcasting in this country, we have no other means of doing so and so a responsible ministry in a responsible government has taken the only steps available to it at this time to sit with those who have excess capacity on that multiplex to bring some of it for the security of our own state.
