{"id":456425,"date":"2018-01-18T21:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/18\/presidential-media-encounter-rapper-edem-unhappy-with-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2018-01-18T21:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:51:19","slug":"presidential-media-encounter-rapper-edem-unhappy-with-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/18\/presidential-media-encounter-rapper-edem-unhappy-with-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential media encounter: Rapper Edem unhappy with Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday, 18 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-01-18<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/60734830.295.jpg\" alt=\"EDem   \" title=\"EDem   \" width=\"295\" height=\"195\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Edem<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1516312279_992_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Rapper Edem is least pleased with the outcome of President Akufo-Addo\u2019s meet the press event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper is disappointed that issues concerning the creative arts sector failed to get prominence at the all-important event which highlighted achievements by President Akufo-Addo in first year in office.<\/p>\n<p>Some journalists were given the opportunity to quiz the President Akufo-Addo on his performance at the event which took place at the Flagstaff House.<\/p>\n<p>Persons from the creative arts sector\u2019s inability to ask a single question at the event has led many to conclude that the president and the government do not care about the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Edem also shares the same view.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Twitter, the \u2018Koene\u2019 hit rapper, born Denning Edem Hotor, said he is not pleased that nothing was said about the creative arts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello his Excellency @NAkufoAddo I am not happy nothing was said about the creative Arts industry during your media encounter..,\u201d he shared on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has rendered an apology to journalists who were denied the opportunity to quiz the President during his encounter with the media.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Thursday, 18 January 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-01-18 Edem Rapper Edem is least pleased with the outcome of President Akufo-Addo\u2019s meet the press event on Wednesday. The rapper is disappointed that issues concerning the creative arts sector failed to get prominence at the all-important event which highlighted achievements by President Akufo-Addo in first year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":456426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}