
The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has described the Content Standards Regulations 2015, the new Legislative Instrument (LI 2224) passed by Parliament on December 9, 2015 to sanitise the airwaves, as a needless attempt to reintroduce the Criminal Libel Law through the backdoor. It, therefore, vowed to seek interpretation of the law at the Supreme Court before the end of this week to determine “whether we are just crying foul for its sake or that we have a case,” the President of GIBA, Mr Akwasi Agyemang, said in an interview in Accra yesterday. He said the association had already notified the National Media Commission (NMC) and the Parliamentary Select Committee on Subsidiary Legislation, Legal and Communication of its intention.