A private legal practitioner has said it is vital to focus also on the numerous billboards and posters across the country that depicts how to get rich quick as possible influencers and not limit the argument to the media space.

Bobby Banson's speaking on JoyNews' AM Show Wednesday, said it is important that the discourse centres on shared responsibility and not limited to media houses and the National Media Commission (NMC).

Although he agreed that the action of the teenagers could be attributed to what they saw on television, he believes that it is not only by television that these spiritualists advertise.

His comment comes after what seems to be a blame game from a cross-section of the public following a recent murder of a 10-year-old boy at Kasoa by two teenagers.

The youngsters are alleged to have murdered the boy in the quest to get rich, as part of demands by a spiritualist.

But many Ghanaians including former President John Agyekum Kufour blames the media as they say it has given spiritualists and mallams the platform to advertise such activities which have, in turn, encouraged the alleged murderers.

But the lawyer said there's the need to widen the scope of the discussion.

“Let’s not limit the augment to only what they see on TV because if you drive around Kasoa, if you drive from Accra to Kumasi, from Kumasi to Sunyani, you will see a lot of billboards and adverts, signposts by the so-called spiritualists.”

He, therefore, called on the Municipal and District Assemblies to collaborate on the NMC to ensure that the publicity of spiritualists and mallams are clampdown in the country.

“We should not limit the responsibility to only the Media Commission, the Municipal and District Assemblies that gives the permits for these billboards and signposts to be bleated across the country should also sit up and be running,” Lawyer Banson told host Mamavi Owusu-Aboagye.

“If you put the blame on the parent, to what extent can the parent prevent the children from seeing the billboard that is advertising money rituals because if the parents do not even have a television at home, then you cannot link it to what the child sees,” he further noted.

The lawyer also observed that most of the billboards from the said spiritualists have their contact numbers and location, “trace them and go after them so that we will know that these things are taken seriously as a country.”

Most of the posters and billboards indicate that the spiritualists are capable of doubling or multiplying money by request.

But Mr Banson says such activities are illegal in Ghana there even if the act is a religion, once it bothers on “criminality then you are not allowed to exercise it or demonstrate it.”

“We are saying that if they advertise that they are able to double one’s money that is a crime because, under our banking laws, it is only the Bank of Ghana that can print money.”

He noted that in Accra for instance, one would see marks on some signposts of corporate intuitions by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) indicating that they were put there without a permit.

“I have not seen any, any such billboards or signpost by a so-call spiritualist (marked) and they will list all the things they are able to do,… But if it a corporate institution that does that then you see that they go after them.”