For the past six weeks (August 19  September 29, 2012), findings from the Media Foundation for West Africa's (MFWA) electoral campaign language monitoring, have revealed that affiliates/supporters of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been the most abusive on radio. The latest findings which is based on monitoring reports for the period, September 30  October 6, also show that for the seventh week running, affiliates of the NPP were once again leading in the use of indecent campaign language on radio.

Mr Kennedy Agyapong, the representative of the people of Assin North in Ghana's Parliament was once again the only individual who used as many as four (4) indecent expressions during the week under review. Mr. Agyapong used all the four indecent expressions on his own radio station,Oman FM,which was coincidently the radio station that registered the highest number of indecent expressions.

During the reporting period (September 30  October 6), 109 reports were received on programmes monitored on 30 out of the 31 radio stations selected for the project. A total of 20 indecent expressions were recorded on 13 of the programmes. The report details the composition of the 20 indecent expressions, the individuals who made them and the radio stations on which they were made.

The monitoring of campaign language on radio is a project of the MFWA funded by STAR-Ghana. The project is aimed at contributing to ensuring issues-based and decent language campaigning in this year's elections. It involves daily monitoring of campaign language/expressions by politicians and activists on specific programmes on 31 selected radio stations across the country.

Altogether, 20 indecent expressions were recorded on 13 programmes which were mostly political in nature. All the 20 indecent expressions were captured on 10 radio stations. Issues of corruption and the activities of political parties were the main subjects of discussion around which a lot of the indecent expressions were made.