The Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party government systematically worked to undermine the Pan-African Festival (PANAFEST) for the simple fact that the festival was initiated by the Jerry Rawlings administration, the Deputy Tourism Minister has charged.<\/p>\n
Mr James Agyenim-Boateng contends that everything the NPP government did in the period between 2001 and 2008 was designed to annihilate the festival which brought together Africans in the Diaspora to celebrate \u201cthe strengths and resilience of African culture and achievements of Africans in spite of the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Deputy Tourism Minister was speaking on the political talk show, Majority Caucus on MultiTV Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou notice that PANAFEST itself was the creation of the NDC which was inspired by Afua Sutherland\u2026 and that was a major, major, major, platform for the promotion and marketing of Ghana. We were receiving as many tourists at every one point in time as far as our tourism calendar was concerned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But under the NPP, he believes, little or no attention at all was paid to the festival, \u201ctherefore making the interest and enthusiasm in PANAFEST wane.\u201d<\/p>\n
In furtherance of the NPP\u2019s agenda to truncate the PANAFEST celebration, Mr Agyenim-Boateng said, the Kufuor administration put in place deliberate policies to dissolve the national carrier, Ghana Airways, which he said, \u201cwas one of the major pivots around which PANAFEST flew and became as epoch as it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ghana Airways, according to him, was making special arrangements to ferry tourists wanting to participate in the PANAFEST celebrations into the country and back at competitive prices \u2013 prices at which other airlines will not do the same job.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday as we speak we were going to have a very large delegation coming in from the Caribbean but you do know that we do not have a direct flight from here to the Caribbean. Our original plan was for them to do a charter service [but] in the last week or two all the major airlines have upped their airfares; it also naturally implies that charter services will go up [and] that is likely to affect the size of delegation that we are likely to receive,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
Having succeeded in crippling Ghana Airways, the NPP government, the Deputy Minister noted, attempted to introduce \u201ca supposed Joseph Project. That was all part of the efforts to kill PANAFEST because it was an NDC initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n
The current NDC government, according to him, is working very hard to revamp the celebrations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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