NCC launches fight against the promotion of LGBT practices in Cameroon’s media landscape
The President of the National Communication Council, Joseph Chebongkeng Kalabubsu has in a release made public on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, warned media promoters and professionals who are involved in broadcasting programs linked to homosexuality in Cameroon.
He said they could be sanctioned according to Cameroonian laws.
The NCC said they have noticed scenes of homosexuality aired in films by foreign editors, adding that they are progressively being found in cartoons that are mostly watched by children.
As the LGBT community becomes widely accepted throughout the world, media companies like Disney are trying to represent them with the airing of Cartoons like Miraculous Lady Bug, in which two ladies can be seen kissing.
The LGBTQ+ community has become more represented in media in recent years and channels like Disney are just some of many companies hopping aboard that train as well.
Tuesday’s release reminds public opinion of the role the NCC has in ensuring the respect of social communication freedom as stipulated in articles 3 and 4 of the January 23, 2012 decree reorganizing the National Communication Council on the one hand, and ensuring the respect of people’s dignity, notably that of children and youth in the media landscape.
Based on the above-mentioned role, the NCC reminds media promoters and professionals that acts of homosexuality are prohibited by the Cameroonian Penal Code and that broadcasting scenes linked to homosexuality is against professional ethics and deontology in the social communication domain.
Media promoters and professionals involved in broadcasting programs linked to homosexuality have been called upon to remove the said programs or face sanctions.
