Prof Addei Blasts NMC

The Chairman of the recently dissolved board of the national broadcaster has described the dissolution of the board as a primitive decision taken by the National Media Commission.

Professor Stephen Adei says the NMC acted primitively by dissolving the GBC board and replacing it with a three-member interim board headed by a former Director-General of GBC, Professor Kwame Karikari.

The NMC on Thursday dissolved the board of the national broadcaster saying the board had not been able to solve the numerous problems that have besieged the corporation.

The NMC says it had followed closely events at the national broadcaster and it has come to the conclusion that the Prof. Adei-led Board has been ineffective since it took office.

But the GIMPA boss says the NMC?s action is a cheap way of bulldozing its way in the affairs of the corporation.

The former Board Chairman before his dismissal rebuffed a directive by the NMC asking the GBC management to reinstate five workers of the corporation it had interdicted for their roles in a Ghana Airways story broadcast on national television.

The board chairman said the NMC?s action then amounted to interference and against principles of good corporate governance.

The board was dissolved a week after that action it took.

Prof. Adei speaking for the first time after his dismissal said the NMC chose a cheap way to appease the workers of the corporation. He said the NMC decided to punish them because they did not kowtow to the directives of the NMC.

?It is a primitive action. It is ancient Ashanti primitive action taken by the NMC. You cannot appoint a board and expect us to allow you to interfere. It is against corporate governance?, he said.

The NMC says the interim administration will be in place till a new team is constituted.