Ashanti Regional Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sam Pyne, has called on movie producers to check the content of their movies before showing them.
Sam Pyne blamed the movie makers for the immoral habits of children and the youth.
According to him, the showing of fetish priests and other spiritualist roles portrayed in movies is part of the reason why most children and the youth are eagerly searching to enrich themselves and therefore do anything bad for self-aggrandizement.
He made these comments in relation to the gruesome murder of a 10-year old boy at Kasoa in the Central Region.
The young boy was murdered by teenagers aged sixteen and eighteen years at an uncompleted building in the area.
The teenagers are said to have committed the murder for money rituals.
Discussing the issue, Sam Pyne noted that the ''passiveness of the society is a factor. This is because we look on for things to happen without showing any concerns".
Part of the societal passiveness to uphold morality is the influx of movie scenes showcasing spiritualists or fetish priests and priestesses doing juju for people.
To him, these scenes register in the minds of children which drive them to crave riches by hook or crook means.
''If we say we will build the society, just as Africa and Ghana especially have our identity to give our children and the nation good upbringing, when we're writing the script; we should be circumspect how we go about using some of these scenes in the movies," he advised during a panel discussion on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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