[2018]DLECT4610 • July 24, 2018 • Electronic Communication Tribunal
MEDEAMAA COMPANY LTD - vs. NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AUTHORITY, ACCRA
The Appellant, Medeamaa Company Ltd, was authorized by the Respondent, National Communications Authority (NCA), to operate a commercial broadcasting radio station from 2012 to 2017. After the authorization expired on 1 April 2017, the Appellant submitted a renewal application with requisite fees in June 2017. Subsequently, the NCA imposed a fine of GHC 405,000 on the Appellant for failure to submit requested documents, alleging breach of regulatory requirements.
read morePROF. DATE-BAH JSC (RETIRED): This is the unanimous decision of this Tribunal. The facts of this case are that the Appellant filed a Notice of Appeal, pursuant to Section 88 of the Electronic Communications Act, 2008 (Act 775) and Regulation 1 of the Electronic Communications (Rules of Procedure of the Electronic Communications Tribunal) Regulations, 2016 (LI 2235), on 16th January 2018 against a decision of the Respondent dated 21st December 2017 which imposed a fine of four hundred and five thousand (405,000) Ghana Cedis on the Appellant. The Grounds of Appeal set out in the Notice of Appeal are as follows: "(a) The decision of the Respondent dated 21st December 2017 imposing a punitive fine of Four Hundred and Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (Ghc 405,000.00) on the Appellant is wrongful, arbitral (sic), discriminatory and without any legal justification. (b) That the Respondent never made any request on Applicant to submit any document prior to its letter dated 26th September, 2...