Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations, , has vowed to take disciplinary actions against Kumasi-based Lawson TV by taking it off air over its handling of a sexual abuse case involving a 17-year-old.
Speaking on JoyFM Super Morning Show on Tuesday, August 12, the minister condemned the station for bringing a 17-year-old victim, who had allegedly endured years of sexual abuse on live television without protecting her identity.
He particularly voiced his concern over how she was placed in the same room with her alleged abuser during the airing of the Lawson Afisem show. "When a media house puts a 17-year-old minor who has been abused sexually for ten years, meaning from when she was seven years, without taking the requisite steps to even protect her identity it is a big concern.
She was put her in the same room with her the person who has been abusing her, and they turn the issue into public comedy," he decried.
