The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has directed all telecom operators an media institutions to comply with the guidelines on the deployment of towers and masts of or face sanctions.
The erection of masts and towers in some communities in the country has, over the years, attracted concern from some residents that they could be affected by radiation.
Others have also expressed fear over the possibility of the masts and towers collapsing and falling on them because of their height.
The EPA said it had the mandate to institute court action and impose sanctions on tower and mast operators who failed to abide by the guidelines on the installation of communication towers and masts.
Mr Lawrence Kotoe, a Senior Programmes Officer of the Envrionmental Assesment and Audit Department of the EPA, made this known during a stakeholders’ forum on the guidelines for the installation of towers and masts in Accra on Thursday.
The forum aimed at educating the public on the deployment of masts in the country, the existence and implementation of the guidelines, as well as discuss the challenges encountered during the implementation and the way forward.
The Deputy Director-General of the National Communications Authority (NCA), Mr Albert E. Aninful, said the negative and wrong perceptions about telecommunications masts and towers were still prevalent in the minds of the public.
He was optimistic that the forum would give all participants the needed platform for effective deliberation.
Source: Daily Graphic
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