Avoid intemperate language on airwaves - BNI

The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) has warned owners of radio, TV stations, hosts and panellists to desist from entertaining persons in the habit of using intemperate, inflammatory language and innuendoes on the airwaves.

‘We ... advise media house owners, show hosts, panellists, and other radio communicators to conduct all discussions with decorum, tolerance, and respect for the constitutional rights of others.

We advise all discussants to avoid intemperate and inflammatory language and innuendoes that have the tendency to create fear and panic and that tend to cause breaches of the peace,’ BNI said in a statement.

Following the arrest of the two panellists of an Accra -based Montie FM, Alistair Tairo Nelson, forty-one (41) and Godwin Ako Gunn thirty-nine (39), alleged to have threatened the lives of the Supreme Court Judges, the BNI urged the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to regulate the communication sector to avoid inflammatory commentary that has the potential to threaten the peace and stability of the country.