{"id":275415,"date":"2011-02-03T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=50763"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T10:24:23","slug":"pornography-scamtop-producer-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/03\/pornography-scamtop-producer-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Pornography Scam:Top Producer Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_50764\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50764\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-50764\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/03\/pornography-scamtop-producer-involved\/abdul-salam\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50764\" title=\"Abdul Salam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Abdul-Salam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdul Salam<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSince last week, members of the Ghana  Cinematograph Exhibition Board of Control have been at their wits end  trying to unravel how a top Ghanaian movie producer fooled them into  passing an obviously pornographic movie for general sale to the public.<br \/>\nThe  producer, Abdul Salam Mumuni of Venus Films, one of the fine movie  producers in the country and a multiple awards winner has since December  last year, been selling a movie on the streets and in shops in Accra  and Kumasi with the title Dirty Secrets which can only be categorized as  soft porn.<br \/>\nSome movie enthusiasts who have bought copies of the  said movie have been so disgusted with what they saw that they have  raised concerns over the work of the Cinematograph Board which is  authorized by law to preview and classify all movies meant for  distribution in Ghana.<br \/>\nIndeed, one such enthusiast personally  carried her copy of the offending movie to the offices of the Board to  make a complaint. \u201cHow can this movie be sold here in Ghana without he  Board knowing about it?\u201d, she asked. Surprisingly, the Board knew about  the movie. According to records from a register that was shown to  Showbiz last Tuesday at the Board\u2019s secretariat located in the offices  of the Information Services Department in Accra, the said movie was  passed on December 15 last year.<br \/>\nAccording to Mr. A.G. Amamoo,  Assistant Director of Information Services and secretary to the Board,  the movie was presented by Abdul Salam Mumuni\u2019s outfit for preview in  December. When a panel of the Board saw it, they found some portions of  the movie unwholesome and advised the producer to take it back and edit  those portions before the movie could be put out on the market.<br \/>\nObediently,  the producers went away and returned days later with an edited copy of  the movie which was subsequently classified as A (for adult viewing) and  passed. The Board could as well as saved their time and energy.<br \/>\nEven  before the classification certificate could be issued by the Board,  copies of Dirty Secrets were already selling like hot \u2018aboloo\u2019 on the  market and these copies were not the edited version. This one contained  all the unwholesome portions of bouts of sex, incest and sodomy that the  Board had recommended to be removed.<br \/>\nTwo days ago, when Showbiz  contacted Mr. Ken Addy, a member of the Board whose name appeared in the  register as one of the members of the panel who previewed the movie, he  was beside himself with disgust and collaborated what Mr. Amamoo, the  secretary of the Board had told Showbiz earlier.<br \/>\nMr.  Addy  recommended that a serious view be taken of the incident. \u201cI think that  it is incumbent on the Board to take drastic action against any producer  who is found to distribute a film without the necessary  authorisation.\u201cEven in the absence of a new Information Bill, the 1965  law still says it is an offence so why should the Board and the Ministry  not punish offenders?\u201d.<br \/>\nThe producer was obviously exploiting a  supervisory inadequacy in the work of the Board which only gives a go  ahead to producers without any enforcement role. But Abdul Salam Mumuni  denies that he deliberately attempted to fool the Board.<br \/>\nTaking  some time off his shooting schedule on location last Tuesday, he told  Showbiz over the phone that he did not produce the film himself and that  he only acquired the rights to distribute in Ghana from a Nigerian  producer.<br \/>\nHe denied that he intended to fool the Board. \u201cWhat  happened was that by the time the Board gave us the go ahead, the copies  had already been made in Nigeria and shipped to Ghana.\u201d He expressed  his regret over the matter and said he had ordered all remaining copies  to be retrieved from the market.<br \/>\nSimilar comments were made by  Stephen Hackman, President of Film Distributors Association of Ghana. He  told Showbiz that the incident was unfortunate and he had personally  had discussions with Deputy Minister of Information Mr. Agyenim Boateng  who acts as President of the Board on behalf of the minister over the  matter and Mumuni has been asked to retrieve all copies of the movie  form the market.<br \/>\nThe request appears to have come too  late as producers are known to maximise the sale of the new movies in  the week of their release. This particular movie has been on the market  for over six weeks.<br \/>\nIn May last year, the Minister of Information,  John Tia Akologo, appalled by the large number of complaints from the  general public over the presence of indecent films on the market  disbanded the Board and reconstituted it with the aim of sanitizing the  film exhibition systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since last week, members of the Ghana Cinematograph Exhibition Board of Control have been at their wits end trying to unravel how a top Ghanaian movie producer fooled them into passing an obviously pornographic movie for general sale to the public. 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