Mark Okraku Mantey, the deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, has urged players in the entertainment circle to be peaceful with each other as he believes many hatred hinder progress in the industry.
According to him, some Ghanaian creatives in recent times is to go public, especially on social media, with private conversations when their friendships and love relationships turn soar.
Commenting on this, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mark Okraku Mantey says these acts should not be encouraged because they go a long way to affect the creative industry negatively.
“It’s unfortunate these things happen. What we do not know is that these things affect our industry. They prevent us from getting sponsors and sometimes the investors we crave for. Why do we negate our industry with these things, are these the only things we can sell about our industry?
Adding that the parties involved also go on to call each other names using very vulgar words.
“How about selling the other side of it which is the positive ones, can we sell parts that will attract respect, that will attract the corporate world so that they can work with us, people don’t know but these things affect the industry gravely,” he told Graphic Showbiz in an interview recently.
He added that, “these washing of dirty linen in public are what we see or read about on social media in recent times, people write just anything without thinking about the effect it will have on our industry. We must go back to the drawing board. And that is why the ministry is bent on reorienting everyone”, he stated.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare