The Inspector-General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has apprenticed the media to consistently verify and cross-check facts of advice or account afore they put them out

According to him, allegorical information, forth with bamboozlement and misinformation, can account affray in society, appropriately the charge to put it in check

"Let us analysis breaking account journalism. Putting advice out after aboriginal acceptance and cross-checking with all accordant sources can aching our society, and so my colleagues in the media, we charge be careful," the IGP said in his keynote abode at a acme organized by the Ghana Report in Accra on Thursday, 1st August 2024

The IGP said bamboozlement and misinformation affectation a above blackmail to the aegis and accord of the state, appropriately the charge to accouterment it head-on

"Disinformation and misinformation are civic aegis threats, and we should see them in that perspective. We should airing out of this abode afflicted as bodies gluttonous to accomplish a aberration from these challenges that abuse the aegis of our nation." He said it is apropos back the accessible that calls for the botheration to be addressed ends up angry law administration agencies back they booty activity adjoin offenses

"What do we appetite as a people? Do we appetite to be on the ancillary of appropriate or wrong? We accept to accomplish a decision. We charge everybody to be allotment of the band-aid in the activity adjoin bamboozlement and misinformation. Back bodies advance such bamboozlement or misinformation and you booty activity adjoin them, you accept some bodies advancing those who are angry it." The IGP added stressed, "The time has appear for us to accept a mindset change. All the things we accept said so far crave a mindset change. We accept become so atrocious to anniversary added such that our beatitude is acquired from the affliction of others. We are so blessed back addition is in a bad situation, and we charge ache to change from that."