Ghanaian Citizen Calls for Ban on “Get-Rich-Quick” TV Content Over Rising Youth Fraud

A concerned citizen is urging Ghana’s leaders to crack down on media content that promotes shortcuts to wealth, saying it is fueling fraud and money rituals among young people.

In a letter addressed “To Whom It May Concern”, Antwi Boasiako Linford warned that most content on TV stations, social media platforms, and other media is normalizing quick-wealth schemes. He argues this is a key reason fraud is becoming rampant among the youth.

“Many shows promote ‘get-rich-quick’ ideas and make it seem like you don’t need to work hard to become rich,” Linford wrote.

He rhetorically stated that about 70% of TV channels now show content that normalizes money rituals and shortcuts to wealth, yet the issue is being ignored. “We have become deaf and blind to it. We neither see nor speak against it.”

The letter was addressed to several state and public figures including President John Dramani Mahama, Hon. Samuel Nartey George of the Minority Caucus in Parliament, religious leaders, chiefs, opinion leaders, ministers of state, politicians, Parliament of Ghana, and the Ministry of the Interior.

Linford is urging authorities to ban certain content from TV screens and extend similar restrictions to harmful content on social media.

He said the current media narrative is making young people believe work is not required to get rich, and called for a change to reduce fraud and money rituals in the country.

He signed off as a “Concerned Citizen” and appealed for urgent action to protect Ghanaian youth from what he described as damaging media influence.