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| Youth Of Today Are Not Serious About Life...Akua Sena Dansua |
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| Date: 17-Jan-2012 |
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| ...scene from A Ghanaian movie |
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The internet in Ghana has become a platform for committing crime and watching pornographic videos and pictures, rather than a medium for transacting genuine business, making friends and educating oneself.
In Accra suburbs like Nima, Mamobi, Kaneshie, Lapaz, Achimota, Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Tema, Ashaiman - it is common to see young boys and girls, spending much of their day behind computers in internet cafes, surfing the net for loose credit card details, which they subsequently use to order all kinds of electronic appliances and in some cases expensive, luxurious cars.
Others use these cards to carry out internet banking transactions. Credit-card numbers obtained by theft from poorly secured websites on the Internet are used to access pornographic net pages, and innocent people are charged.
Also it is normal to see young Ghanaians trooping in and out of banking halls around the city these days to receive huge amounts of cash transferred to Ghana from either people they managed to misled into trusting them as business partners, or Westerners or Europeans in search of cheap gold bars or diamonds in Ghana.
Experts say this growing fraud possibly results from carelessness by banks, and raises the possibility that credit cards as currently operated worldwide are unsuitable for electronic commerce.
Last year, the issue of Sakawa and pornography caught the attention of the nation’s lawmakers, after Second Deputy Majority ChiefWhip, Hon. Mary Boforo, read a statement in the House, calling for serious action to halt the trend. “…The quality and content of movies produced by film makers in the country also lives much to be desired. Movies on the Ghanaian market are full of explicit sexual themes. Some even carry titles such as What Sex Can Do.” “Madam Speaker, a few days ago, when I took the trouble to visit a number of internet cafes in the city, I could not believe the widespread use of internet for pornographic purposes. Most of the internet cafes I visited were full of young girls and boys browning pornographic sites.
“When I enquired, most of them told me they use their pocket monies to pay for browsing the internet. They even spend most of their break time and after close of school to visit internet cafes mainly because [of] porno, which excites them.”
Hon Boforo therefore called for immediate state action to deal with the canker. “The youth of today are not serious about life,” Tourism Minister Hon. Akua Sena Dansoa said on the floor after Hon Boforo read her statement. “They spend more time using the internet on frivolous things, instead of using it to prepare themselves for the future,” the former Minister for Women and Children said.
“The majority of parents of today don’t have time for their children,” the Minister added, suggesting that the apparent failure by parents to spend quality time with their children was to blame for the growing use of pornographic materials by the youth.
Commenting on the statement, Akyem Abwakwa South MP, Hon Samuel Attah Akyea said: “The major issue about pornography is abuse of womanhood” adding, “The obligation is for women to rise up and not be abused this way.” “We are permitting our youngsters to be addicted to pornography because of the internet…and enjoy the nudity of all manner of people they do not know.
While arguing that calls to legislate “morality is a tall order,” Hon Ata Akyea said, “What is extremely important is education. Women should prove to the whole world that they are more valuable than that…”
When she took the floor, Ayawaso West Wogon MP, Hon Frema Opare blamed radio and TV stations for complicating the problem of growing pornography sue in Ghana.
“The choice of language of radio commentaries is distasteful…They give graphic description of issues in a manner that has nothing to do with the news…or facts… We must look at censorship”.
We at 'The Globe' share the views expressed by the lawmakers on the matter of growing misuse of the internet amongst Ghanaian youth.
'The Globe' is convinced the Sakawa phenomenon in Ghana especially is indeed growing, in spite of the ongoing Police crackdown.
The situation is making Ghana highly unpopular in the world of e-business. 'The Globe' believes the time has come for the Ghana Police Service to step up its game to end the trend. They must pursue these criminals by moving from the various cafes into banking halls which have become notorious for supporting the Sakawa phenomenon.
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| Source: Editorial (The Globe) |
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