Montie FM closed down- Workers asked to go home without any compensation

The station failed to pay its license fee

Workers of an Accra-based private  radio station, Montie FM, have been asked to stop work until further notice.

According to a source close to the station, the workers were sent home for the past five months without compensation . This situation has deprived Montie FM workers their livelihood for the past months.

It is unclear what might have triggered the action of the owners of the pro-NDC radio station. Our source indicates that management of Montie FM were working feverishly to make the station operational again.

It would be recalled that  Montie FM, a radio station sympathetic to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) was shut down by the National Communications Authority last year over unpaid license fee.

The National Media Commission (NCA) on September 27,  2017 sanctioned 131 FM Authorization Holders found to have committed various infractions pertaining to their authorizations to operate as contained in section 13 of the Electronics Communications Act (2009), Act 775.

Montie FM became popular in the build up to the 2016 elections when some panelists who had appeared on a political show were jailed by the Supreme Court for threatening judges with death.

Source: otecfmghana.com