{"id":457702,"date":"2018-01-23T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/23\/government-is-not-helping-us-in-any-way-fipag\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:00:27","slug":"government-is-not-helping-us-in-any-way-fipag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/23\/government-is-not-helping-us-in-any-way-fipag\/","title":{"rendered":"Government is not helping us in any way &#8211; FIPAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday, 23 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-01-23<\/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\/52510578.295.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Afeku   \" title=\"Catherine Afeku   \" width=\"295\" height=\"199\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Catherine Afeku, Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture<\/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\/1516730427_493_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG) has accused the government of neglect.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of the association, Mr Zakari Abdulai expressed excitement over the newly created Zylofon Arts Fund and commended it as an initiative that would benefit the association immensely.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the fund would grant them the support the government has refused to offer.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed to Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM that, \u201cthe government doesn\u2019t give us any money, the film fund is not functional as we speak now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abdulai was of the view that the Ministry of Creative Arts was not being efficient at its job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who have been sent to the industry; the creative arts ministry, do not know what they are doing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zakari Abdulai told Andy Dosty that, all efforts to get the attention of the ministry to come to their aid and hold discussions on the growth of the association have all proven futile.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary\u2019s lamentations resonate with that of the Ghana Actors Guild whose President, Samuel Fiscian who also on the show admitted that the organisation has received little attention from the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, their \u201cexpectations have been much higher, especially when the president of Ghana has stated that his heart is with the creative arts industry, so we have been expecting that much more attention would have been paid, but that has not been the case.\u201d<\/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 Tuesday, 23 January 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-01-23 Catherine Afeku, Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture The Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG) has accused the government of neglect. Secretary of the association, Mr Zakari Abdulai expressed excitement over the newly created Zylofon Arts Fund and commended it as an initiative that would benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":457706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457702","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\/457702","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=457702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}