The Ghana Cinematography Exhibition Board of Control has condemned national security operatives who allegedly carried out a raid at the office of a film producer, making away with 13,000 copies of a new movie that had been released by the producer.<\/p>\n
The title of the intercepted movie is \u2018Atta Mortuary Man\u2019.<\/p>\n
The name \u2018Atta Mortuary Man\u2019 became popular after the NDC\u2019s Founder and Former President Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, made reference to an \u2018Atta\u2019 friend of his, who works in the mortuary at the 37 Military Hospital during a speech at the NDC\u2019s Congress in Tamale in 2010.<\/p>\n
Another film producer, Kofi Asamoah fears his new movie titled \u201cOh Uncle Atta\u201d may also be prevented from being released onto the market although it has no political connotation.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ken Addy, a member of the Ghana Cinematography Exhibition Board of Control told Citi News the content of the movie \u201cAtta Mortuary Man\u201d has nothing to do with politics.<\/p>\n
He said the action of the national security officers was unwarranted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis film has gone through the right process. It has come through the Board. It has been previewed and classified and it has been given permission to be put out on the open market. I again checked with the Secretariat whether anybody from the National Security contacted the Secretariat on this issue before the action that was taken, and the answer was ‘No’, which I feel very hurt about, because otherwise what is the purpose of the body?<\/p>\n
“The Body is to regulate films that come into the open market and this film has gone through the process. So if anything at all, the National Security could have checked and then the Board would have made it known to them that the content of the film has no bearing on any particular person, but they didn\u2019t and I feel very sad about that” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Board would therefore speak to the National Security to find out why they did that because as at now, I do not know their reasons for what they did,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Checks by Citifmonline.com indicate the \u201cAtta Mortuary Man\u201d is a comedy in which the lead actor, Agya Koo, playing the role of Atta, is a susu collector who after fraudulently embezzling the amounts he had collected from the residents decided to ran away from the vicinity. Finding himself in a new locality, he had to pursue other jobs for a living and settled on being a mortuary man.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Deputy Information Minister Baba Jamal has revealed in an interview with Peace FM Monday that the 13,000 copies of the movie were seized because the producer did not complete censorship procedures.<\/p>\n
He further explained that though the movie itself had been censored and approved by the Cinematography Board, its posters and adverts had not yet been scrutinised since the producer did not make them available at the time the movie was under scrutiny.<\/p>\n
Mr Jamal said until the adverts and posters have been properly censored, the movie should not be sold.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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