Rt. Honourable Speaker of Parliament, Aban Bagbin has lamented over the proliferation of foreign telenovelas in the Ghanaian media space.
According to the Speaker of Parliament the influx of the telenovelas is gradually becoming a torn in the flesh owing to the negative effect it may have on some Ghanaians especially women as well as destroy the country’s culture.
Addressing the gathering as the special guest at the launch of a book of the first former deputy speaker Ken Dzirasah titled ”Defining Moments, a Trip from the village to Parliament and Beyond” he encouraged Ghanaians to resort to reading in order to prevent the country’s identity.
“The telenovelas of today on our television sets are figments of imaginations, from the cultures they originated from which have developed into storylines. Very often they have no bearings on our culture.
“These become storylines that captivate us to the extent that we are not prepared to miss one episode…my concern here today is about the content and the lessons we pick from them. It is about the content and its impact on us. These days I have been talking to a lot of women to stop watching those telenovelas because they are corrupting them to the extent that their husbands may no longer know them,” the former Nadowli-Kaleo MP said.