The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has encouraged children and the youth to be bold in reporting persons who subject them to sexual exploitation and expose them to pornographic materials and other dangers online so that the perpetrators are arrested and duly punished.
She urged them to take advantage of the various Incident Reporting Points of Contact (PoC) that the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) had set up and to report images and videos of illegal content and other social vices to expose online predators.
Mrs Owusu Ekuful made the statement in an address read on her behalf by a Deputy Minister of Communications, Mr Vincent Odotei Sowah, at a forum on Africa Child Online Protection in Accra Monay.
The forum was held at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) in Accra and was jointly organised by the Ministry of Communications and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as part of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
The three-day event will draw lessons and best practices on child online protection measures from countries around Africa.
