Embittered Ghanaian filmmaker, Socrate Sarfo has hit hard at the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Honourable Abla Dzifa Gomashie.
It is already in the news that some creative art pundits are calling for the creative arts ministry to be shut down because it has failed to deliver on its mandate or make astronomical impact on the industry or stakeholders in the creative arts industry.
Speaking on Channel R’s 205 Total Entertainment, Socrate Sarfo, who is one of the showbiz personalities who campaigned for NNP candidate Nana Akufo Addo with a group name Creative Arts for Change CAC, said he will be glad if the current NDC government loses power come 2016 so that NPP will come into office.
“I pray this government lose come next year so that Nana Addo can come into office and save the situation. You put us in this situation and expect to come to us next year so we vote for you! It won’t happen! We won’t vote for them come 2016!”
Touching on the creative arts ministry where in recent times Honourable Dzifa Gomashie monished Ghanaian filmmakers to promote our culture through their movies, Socrate agreed with her but took turns to chide her for her believed incompetence at the ministry.
“Dzifa Gomashie will be sacked and she would have to go back to the selling of Banku. She even told me that the banku joint she run is suffering patronage since this government came into office. She will be removed as soon as this government loses!
“She would have to come and suffer with us! We will all suffer together!” Apparently, Honourable Dzifa has a nice restaurant she sell banku so her challenges which she shared with Socrate, has been used by the latter for political expediency!
Ending, Socrate advised the Honourable to use her writing skills to pen down all the suggestions people in the arts are giving her and submit to the parliament for implementation. “Dzifa is a good writer. She is a good scriptwriter. She should use her writing skills to pen down all that we are telling her.
“She should gather all, seal it and send to the parliament. We will also support her with demonstrations. Every month we will do so and it will be passed!” Indeed, politics is graduating dividing Ghana’s creative arts industry. Come next year, we hope to see more drama on the political front. Until then…MOTWUM!!