Musician Samini has said that the governing New Patriotic Party has not put enough effort into helping the creative arts sector.
Speaking in an interview on Hitz FM, Samini said that industry players had been waiting on the government to fulfil its promise adding that the projects that are being done are also not close to completion.
“I saw on UTV the other day when Socrates was talking, he tried to give references to certain construction sites to say that these are theatres and stuff that are being built, and we have a year and a half to go…So if these things are under construction on the very foundation level, then I don't know how to, you know, mark it until maybe the one and a half years is over.”
“But really judging from where I sit, I don't think enough has been put towards our sector as against what was said. I wouldn't say there is enough.
"There's always room for more given how long we've been waiting for things to happen, and what we expect to happen, as against how much promises were made and then comparing that to what is being done on the ground now,” Samini said.
As someone who campaigned for the NPP ahead of the 2020 general elections, he stated that he was disappointed with the effort so far.
Samini stated that this is because the promises the government made to the creative arts industry encouraged him to believe in President Akufo-Addo’s vision and campaign for the party.
“Things like these, among other things like free SHS, one district, one factory, one district, one dam…I was more interested in the factories because I come from the North and the numbers that we have over there, if you have factories that can employ people, 2000 people working day and night, making a living out of it.”
“We have different sectors that need factories. So these things attracted some of us to go and say, ‘let's have some sort of continuity rather than distortion to retrogress’. And I guess the blueprint is there for everyone to judge,” he said.
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