Many residents in the Koforidua Municipalities and its surrounding communities have expressed their displeasure about the daily political discussions on the airwaves. According to them, it distracted people from focusing on their business activities and created unnecessary animosity among people of different political parties and ethnic groups. These were revealed in a survey conducted by the Ghana News Agency, for more than one month in Koforidua, and some surrounding communities. The survey took the form of focused group discussions with representatives of the sample communities. The survey was initiated following the observation that many people in the Municipality and the surrounding communities tuned their radio sets to a new FM station, ‘’BRYT FM’’ at Koforidua, whose test transmission focused on playing music and an advertisement for a company. Giving reasons why they or the people they knew preferred the new station, the participants indicated that most of the residents were fed up with political discussions, newspaper reviews, and morning shows on radio and televisions stations, which offered the platform to politically biased panelists to politicize almost all the issues in the country. Speaking to the GNA, Mr Elvis Oppong, a driver and resident of Asokore, observed that the daily political discussions on the airwaves created unnecessary tension in the country and retarded development. He said one could not continue to read more
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