{"id":460076,"date":"2018-01-31T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/31\/fda-to-ban-captain-planets-akpeteshie-song\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T09:30:23","slug":"fda-to-ban-captain-planets-akpeteshie-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/31\/fda-to-ban-captain-planets-akpeteshie-song\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA to ban Captain Planet&#8217;s &#8216;Akpeteshie&#8217; song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Wednesday, 31 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Razzonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-31<\/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\/82334663.295.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Planet Akpeteshie\" title=\"Captain Planet Akpeteshie\" width=\"295\" height=\"203\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Captain Planet is set to release a new song titled &#8216;Akpeteshie&#8217;<\/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=151125817981905\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817981905\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1517391023_30_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">\u2018Akpeteshie\u2019, is a Ghanaian spirit produced in Ghana by distilling palm wine or sugar cane. Other names for this drink include VC10, and apio. Frantically speaking,&#8217;Akpeteshie is the national spirit of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The popular Ghanaian produced spirit \u2018Akpeteshie, is not professionally bottled or sealed, but instead poured into unlabeled used bottles.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that, Razzonline.com had reported that the \u2018Obi Agye Obi Girl\u2019s hitmaker was set to release \u2018Akpeteshie\u2019 on 20th January 2018 but couldn\u2019t substantiate whether he was going to advocate for the use of \u2018Akpeteshie\u2019 in the song or advice people to be wary of over drinking the most popular spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Reliable information available to Razzonline.com indicates strenuously that, Captain Planet intends advocating for excessive intake of the popular Ghanaian spirit since it is locally manufactured here rather than caution people on the need to drink it responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview to ascertain whether the song can be banned with regards to the lyrical content, a representative from the Foods and Drugs Authority (FDA),a National Regulatory Authority mandated by the Public Health Act 2012 (Act 851) to regulate food, drugs, food supplements, herbal and homeopathic medicines, veterinary medicines, cosmetics, medical devices, household chemical substances, tobacco and tobacco products, who spoke with Razzonline.com, explained that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If truly Captain Planet releases the \u2018Akpeteshie\u2019 song and he advocates for the excessive intake of the spirit since he believes it is manufactured in Ghana so people must drink it more so that the producers would make profit, well it\u2019s good to make profit but looking at the complications surrounding excessive drinking, we shall ban the song..I will really be surprised if a role model like Captain Planet would do such a song,&#8221; the FDA rep opined.<\/p>\n<p>Though Captain Planet is again going Solo with \u201cAkpeteshie\u201d, he is still the leader of celebrated Hip-life\/Hip-pop group; 4X4.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video man who overtook \u201cAkpeteshie\u2019 below!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/luqukqkADh8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 39 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 Wednesday, 31 January 2018 Source: Razzonline.com 2018-01-31 Captain Planet is set to release a new song titled &#8216;Akpeteshie&#8217; \u2018Akpeteshie\u2019, is a Ghanaian spirit produced in Ghana by distilling palm wine or sugar cane. Other names for this drink include VC10, and apio. Frantically speaking,&#8217;Akpeteshie is the national spirit of Ghana. The popular Ghanaian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460076","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\/460076","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=460076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}