GHANA- #StopMoneyRitualsOnTv trends on social media as a call to ban money ritual advertising on some Ghanaian Tv stations following the killing of the 10-year-old boy at Coca Cola, near Lamptey Mills in Kasoa.
The Ofaakor District Magistrate Court presided over by Her Lordship, Mrs Rosemond Vera Ocloo today remanded into police custody the two teenagers who allegedly murdered a 10-year-old boy for money rituals at Kasoa last Saturday.
The boys, 16 and 17 years are to appear at court on 20th April 202.
A disturbing video that shocked Ghanaians revealed the deceased, a small boy identified as Ishmael lying in a pool of blood in a police pickup with the two alleged murderers in handcuff.
The teenage boys lured Ishmael into an uncompleted building and hit him with a cement block instantly killing him. They proceeded to bury the small boy in the ground.
According to Ishmael’s mother, Ismael was playing a video game in the house when he was called by his playmates also residents in the area and regular visitors.
Some Ghanaians are blaming the TV stations that advertise Mallams and spiritualist who engage in money rituals and claim to be expert in doubling money for people. However, most of these money doublers are allegedly poor.
It is obvious to some that these tricksters on TV influence the boys decided to kill Ismael as they confessed that a Mallam asked them to bring human parts for a ritual to get some money.
Others are also blaming some social media influencers and musicians for advertising a lavish lifestyle alleged to be fake and not their true state of financial strength and outcome of genuine hard work.
The content on our TV screens and radio stations needs to be regulated. The media is an educator and an informant, the media contents determine the state of mind of the average people and affect development. A system that advertises how people can double their money or get money without working is sitting on a time bomb to doom.
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