Sunyani-Ghana, Nov. 25, GNA – Sports analysts and football enthusiasts in Sunyani, the Bono Regional capital, have appealed to the government to devise innovative and digitalized ways to collect TV license fees to enhance the nation’s revenue net.
According to them, though taxation and payment of TV license fees in particular had had a long and checkered history around the world, the challenge in Ghana remained the mode of collection and payment but not non-compliance.
“If the government introduces a more democratized, convenient and digitalized way, then I believe majority of Ghanaians would pay their TV license fees”, says Mr. Stephen Andoh, a sport analyst.
They were sharing their views in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) sports in Sunyani, as Ghana after Ghana’s match with Portugal on Thursday in the group stage of the 2022 World Cup, underway in Qatar.
Another football fan, Fati Abiba, a food vendor at the Central Business District noted that some citizens had no interest and defaulted in the payment of TV license “because our national television has no interesting content”.
“Have you bothered to ask yourself why people don’t pay TV license fees, but yet subscribe to DStv and other satellite networks and pay huge monthly bills. That should tell you something,” Mr. Osei Owusu, a football fan stated.
Meanwhile, some of the football enthusiasts said they were extremely disappointed that the nation could not provide a live free-to-air telecast for the 2022 World Cup.
“Football is entertainment and as a global cup every Ghanaian everywhere in the country must have the opportunity to watch especially all the Ghana matches,” Emmanuel Osei, a local sports commentator indicated.
