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t's hysterical, how creative industry people are never on the same page to fight against ills in the arts industry.

The profiteering in our creative arts industry is worth a national vigil. When will we march, hold a vigil to campaign against this ailing industry, like our forebears did for our rights to sovereignty.

There's the issue about royalties that plagues our industry. Monies owned the Ghanaian entertainer by music users, payola and countless of other hurdles. It's a canker that needs eradication, and the earlier this generation puts their minds to the task the better since our forerunners failed in that endeavor.

Growing up we heard a lot about how rich some of our entertainment icons were. Daddy Lumba is an artist we all have great admiration for, some of us were fortunate to have had a working relationship with. He recently was in the news about disappointing his fans at an event in held in Accra by failing to deliver his usual sterling performance.

Lots took to social media lambasting him, saying if he's sick, he shouldn't have taken the gig. How is he expected to pay for medical expenses if he doesn't take gigs? Elsewhere in the world, entertainers at DL's level benefit from insurance and royalties, so hardly do they depend on gigs for survival.

Our entertainment industry is set up to fail and force the entertainer to retire broke after five years. It's only by divine intervention that some old folks are still surviving.

Entertainment in Ghana belongs in a hall of shame.

What happened to exceptional entertainers and industry players like Daasebre Gyamenah, Ofori Amponsah, Kwadee, Lord Kenya, Papa Yankson, Jewel Ackah, Mark Jordan Amartey, Agiecoat, Goodies, Big Ben Production, Iddi Koko, Bob Okala and a lot more?

It's sad and shameful to be part of an industry that doesn't work. An industry that is built on lies, peacocks and show offs. How can we entertain our nation for years, and cannot pay school fees, utility bills and afford affordable homes? Most of us drive in borrowed cars and live with our mothers, depending on women and scam to survive.

We get little or no remuneration for what we do as professionals all because we haven't take our craft seriously. Even ECG workers get pay and pension for unproductiveness, but the entertainer doesn't.

I respect what some of my colleagues are up to, but sincerely they have missed the point. Some say it's an opposition ploy to unseat the incumbent. In the last elections, the entertainer wasn't clever about dipping its hands in the politician's pouch. They climbed stages, performed and campaigned in the open which resulted in loss of some carriers, so this maybe a smart plan this time around. If so, I say kudos to the political strategist who conceived this dumb idea, and to my colleagues who bought into the idea, I say it is sad. It's a hypocritical approach to a dire national issue, but hey, what do I know! In politics morals don't come to play.

We have failed to exhibit seriousness in our enterprise, and for a long time we have been taken for granted. Going on a ?#?dumsor? vigil won't change that perception about us. Are we offering a solution to the power cuts by demonstrating? Or it's a political scheme? #dumsor didn't start with this administration and won't stop at their feet.

The power rationing issue is a genuine one plaguing the nation, and to play politics with it is sad. As entertainers If we are rooting for the right things to be done, we must first apply it in our illustrious circles. By mounting incessant pressure on our arts ministry, even if we have one, to set up proper and potent structures.

Yes indeed, constant flow of power is imperative to run our diseased industry, but it's a quarter of our humongous problem. The critical issue we rather put on a back burner.

Presently Shatta Wale and Sarkodie are traveling the world, where will they be tomorrow. Socrates Sarfo had one of the best movies on the market sometime back, what has become of his production house? Bullhaus Entertainment manages one of the best artistes in the country now, where will we be in five years?

These are pertinent questions we should ask, bearing in mind our unpalatable industry. It's sad enough we have to travel our neighboring African countries to earn more. Nigeria has the worse energy crisis in the world. Can we compare our arts industry to theirs?

We need power as a people to run a profitable economy, but it’s our national duty and responsibility to preserve it.

God help our homeland Ghana… ?#?sikanhyira? ?#?magicalyear?


Source: yfmghana.com
Search in: Ghana Entertiament News  Topic: Bulldog: Most Ghanaian musicians are fraudsters  Replies: 2  Views: 457
Outspoken award winning Ghanaian actress, Lydia Forson has lashed out at President John Mahama for his failure to solve the numerous challenges facing the nation especially, the power crisis.

According to Ms Forson, despite the many chances Ghanaians have given to the President to make do his promises, the problems remain unsolved.

In a letter written to the President and posted on her Facebook page, Lydia Forson indicated that the general public should be aware that “the president really doesn’t care about us; we the little people we the ones who are not significant enough to be bothered about.”

She is the latest Ghanaian celebrity to speak up against government’s inability to permanently fix the energy crisis known as ‘dumsor’.

Below is Lydia Forson’s letter to President Mahama

I’ve been meaning to writing this for a while, but every time I start I’m just reminded of all the drama my friends face on my behalf every time I “speak” my mind. I’ve told them to stop fighting my battles, but well they won’t listen.

Personally I’m past caring about what people think of the things I have to say, it’s not for their benefit that I write; its for the many people who don’t have a voice or a platform like mine to express themselves.

But last night I had an encounter with a man who all but told me that I need to shut up about issues that aren’t about me or don’t concern me.

Now being the lady that I ” pretend” to be I basically tried to keep my cool and let him know, my parents didn’t raise me to be a fool. They raised me to ask questions, think and have an opinion.

So in honour of the fool who’s STUPIDTY can’t be cured I’m about to go in on something I’ve tried to stay out of, you know, just to piss him off a little. Ha, I like that, piss him of!

See I’ve kept mute of this #dumsor issue going on between my friends on social media because the last time I wrote to President Mahama he ignored me.

Chaii dude didn’t even call me !!?????

How much rejection can one take Huh?

One person refuses to marry me and other won’t call me?

Well I’m too much woman for them anyway.

Sorry I digress.

Anyway…. Mahama

Our president is like that kid in school who is always last, always gives the wrong answers and never seems to grasp what is being taught.

But for some reason you keep rooting for him, you keep hoping he will come out and shock everyone, come out and put people to shame, come out and make people take back every little mean thing they said about him.

You keep waiting and waiting until you all graduate and he’s still stuck in the same class because he didn’t pass.

I hate that I have to say this about someone I truly do admire and like many people really want him to make a change.

But when you frustrate people enough, your feelings don’t matter anymore.

The truth is by now you should know, the president really doesn’t care about us ;we the little people we the ones who are not significant enough to be bothered about.

I mean how do you believe the bulls**t he’s constantly trying to feed us about understanding us.

Please Mr.President take several seats on that one because you really have no clue what it’s like to live like us the COMMON people.

Hey I have an idea, why don’t you try having your lights off for maybe 48 hours( and thats being generous) And sleep in the heat because you’re afraid to leave the windows open, in case thieves try to break in.

Oh and on top of that add the fact that you can’t even afford a generator because you’re not making enough to buy one, and when you finally do make some money the value is basically useless because the cedi continues to depreciate.

Let’s see if you don’t lose your mind.

Then and only then will I believe you understand just about 3% of how frustrating to live in Ghana.

So really I’m not even going to address you Mr. President.

I’m going to sit here in the heat and hold my breath till you SHOCK me.( hope I don’t die from waiting)

FYI please tell your little minions who call me every time I write to you to stop, I don’t like that.

And their voices aren’t even sexy, aaah, its you I want to hear from. So if it’s not you they shouldn’t call me. They should also keep their threats in the sandbox they play in when they meet their buddies for play time; I don’t play with kids, too grown for that.

And please oh I apologize to everyone this post will offend, I already apologized the last time and hoped it would cover this post as well. But hey, there’s more to come so my apology covers all the things I haven’t even thought of writing yet.


#dumsormustSTOP



Source: Citifmonline.com

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