There isn't a "culture of silence" in Ghana - Information Minister

The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has refuted assertions that there is a culture of silence creeping into the country.

He said, such beliefs are only held by persons who cannot withstand criticism.

“This claim that there is something called the culture of silence in this country cannot be true. This is a country of about 500 radio stations, about 100 TV stations, millions of social media accounts and everybody is freely expressing themselves. What some persons cannot stand is that when they express their thoughts and other people speak that they disagree, then they claim you are silencing them. Respectfully, that is the beauty of our democracy, that I will have my say, and you can disagree with me,” Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said, after he met with journalists in the North East Region on Wednesday, May 5, 2021.

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Statesman, Sir Sam Jonah, while delivering a speech at a public lecture with Rotarians in Accra about two weeks ago remarked that the culture of silence was slowly creeping into the country through convenience, hypocrisy and parochialism.

“It appears to me that the culture of silence has returned. This time not enforced by legal and military power but through convenience, parochialism, hypocrisy, and a lack of conviction. Where are our Adu Boahens and PV Ansahs?” he said as quoted by Citinewsroom.

But the Information Minister expressed his disagreement with the assertion of a culture of silence in Ghana.

“It is the reason I cannot agree that there is a culture of silence in Ghana because the government is committed to the culture of free media in Ghana,” he stated at that event.