MTN brand icon and African Dance hall artiste Samini has begged the Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited to renovate and bring back the Children’s Park inside the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre.
Years ago, the Children’s Park at the Trade Fair served as a playing ground for children during events. Most parents preferred to leave their children at the venue as they get busy buying and selling. The Park had several children’s playing toys and objects such as merry-go-round, bouncing castles and the rest.
But several years down the line, all those have come to a halt. Most of these playing objects have been left to wreck.
Samini who penned down a recording and management deal worth Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedis with Phamous Music last December recollecting memories of growing up said “A lot of things shaped my life as a young boy growing up and one of the most memorable was programs organised by the Trade Fair Company such as Grand Sales and International Trade Fairs”.
He said as a young man, those shows were stuck in his mind as he reminisced those years when himself and couple of his friends always were at the Trade Fair to either listen to music or play at the Children’s Park.
As a matured artiste now, Samini feels “obliged and honoured to be part of this new face of the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre, which for me is part of our culture and identity as a people.”
The channel O award winner made the humble appeal to the officials of the Trade Fair Company at the launch of the 16^th Ghana International Trade Fair [GITF] last Thursday.
The GITF in its 16^th edition is an annual international trade exhibition for local and foreign companies. It is to promote international trade and make Ghana the trading hub through international trade fairs.
This year’s fair will strengthen partnership with corporate sponsors, the media and trading blocs across the globe. The theme for this year’s fair is “Harnessing Opportunities for Growth of the Trade industry”.
The registration for exhibitors in the 16^th Ghana International Fair is on-going and scheduled to end on February 20, 2012 while the fair opens on Thursday February 23^rd through to Saturday March 10, 2012.
Media Centre and Entertainment Village has been added to this year’s fair. Six top musicians will headline a concert on different dates. Whiles Samini will hold his personal solo concert on Ghana’s Independence Day, March 6, 2012.
900 exhibitors and 1 million visitors expected at the 16th Ghana International Fair.