A sociologist at the University of Ghana, Dr Mark Kwaku Mensah Obeng, has called on the media to stop trivializing news reports of jilted killings.
He made this call while addressing reasons Ghana is recording a rise in love-related murder cases.
According to him, the media controls the narratives of the society, hence the conversations around jilted killings must be treated as crime stories and not as mere acts.
“For the media, one of the things they have to stop doing is trivializing some of these things. I think we should see it as a major crime and we should treat it as such. Any time we trivialize some of these things, case in point, the lady who murdered in Kumasi was double dating, that never an excuse to kill, it should never happen,” he said.
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