Police To Assist GBC To Quest TV Licence Fee Defaulters - DG

The Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Dr. Kwame Ntow Akuffo-Anoff, says the Police Service will assist the corporation in pursuit of persons who refuse to pay their TV licence fees.
  
This follows the setting up of a special TV Licence Court by the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to deal with TV licence fee defaulters.  

The special TV Licence Courts will be located across all the ten regions of the country and will sit every Thursday. 

Sittings begin on January 4, from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm. 

Some Ghanaians took to social media after the announcement expressing their reservations about the special court. 

But speaking to an Accra based private radio station, "Citi FM", Dr. Akuffo-Anoff, said the police involvement is to help forestall further challenges with the collection of the fees. 

He expressed happiness that the Chief Justice has taken up the challenge.  

The Director General of GBC said the special court should not be seen “as an opportunity to incarcerate people” but as a clear signal to everybody to pay the television licence fee.  

Also sharing his view on the matter, Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, said the move is a test for GBC to prove its mettle or risk having the tax abolished.  

GBC had in the last two years since the re-introduction, appealed to Ghanaians to voluntarily make their payments. 

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