Following the murder of a 10-year old boy in Kasoa for ritual purposes by two teenagers, former President John Agyekum Kufour has called on media houses to resist giving exposure to fraudsters and tricksters.
According to him the killers of the young boy were victims of these fraudsters who give vain promises.
“How could young people do this? What do they know? Unfortunately, [the] media […] are giving so much exposure to tricksters and fraudulent people, promising everything. When you look at them you should know that these are people who are themselves just bad and ignorant. That is not the way for our society to go,” Kufuor told Joy Prime.
He admonished: “We need to do that, [the] media and, of course, the authorities too should come up and tackle all these people who are now virtually hijacking the airwaves with vain promises and trickery. They should be eradicated….”