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Chairman from the National Film Authority (NFA), Socrate Safo has mentioned from 1st May 2021 all unapproved and unclassified advertisements surrounding money practice or money doubling is going to be clamped down.
The chief revealed that taking impact from 1st May, this kind of businesses will be subjected to go through the offices of the Protection and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Bank of Ghana (BoG) for a license to use in money doubling companies to run an advert to that particular effect.
Mr Socrate Safo stressed that businesses plus persons without license to use such businesses will be rejected with requests to get their own contents broadcasted.
“If a person approach us with a plan and the content is about cash doubling, then we anticipate you to have such a permit.
If you are Mallam and you wish to double money all we have been requiring from you is to display us a license you have from your Security and Exchange Commission payment and the Bank of Ghana to operate as a money doubler. If you don’t have it, then all of us can’t classify such articles for you, ” he observed.
The chairman added that this law on classification had been set to be implemented within June last year but some additional engagement with Ghana Independent Tv producers Association (GIBA) caused this to be delayed.
He pressured that from 1st Might, with reference to the Development plus Classification of film Action 953, contents including documentaries, music videos, television programmes just before they are broadcasted will by way of a strict review by the Expert.
“We (National Film Authority) have been with them (GIBA) backwards and forwards till date and we have got set May 1, to begin implementing the law and this phase was actually set in cooperation with GIBA. So in fact it has been a matter of engagement with all the stakeholders, ” he mentioned on JoyNews.
