{"id":460152,"date":"2018-01-31T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/31\/most-critics-of-musiga-dont-have-facts-bessa-simons\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:30:24","slug":"most-critics-of-musiga-dont-have-facts-bessa-simons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/31\/most-critics-of-musiga-dont-have-facts-bessa-simons\/","title":{"rendered":"Most critics of MUSIGA don\u2019t have facts &#8211; Bessa Simons"},"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>Myjoyonline.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\/19340069.295.jpg\" alt=\"Bessa9\" title=\"Bessa9\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Vice President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bessa Simons<\/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\/1517409024_799_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Vice President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bessa Simons has described critics of the organisation as ignorant of its roles.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation has over the years come under heavy criticism, for not being able to efficiently seek the welfare of its members.<\/p>\n<p>Many have accused the current leaders of not achieving anything under their tenure and mismanaging funds.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bessa Simons speaking to Lexis Bill on Behind the Fame on Drive Time on Joy FM on Tuesday, insisted most of the criticisms come from people who do not have the facts and who know nothing about the union&#8217;s achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people don\u2019t know what goes on at MUSIGA. Most of the people who are saying different kinds of things, don\u2019t have the facts,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the highlife legend, critics would understand functions of the union better, if they knew the structures and procedures it functioned with.<\/p>\n<p>He told Lexis Bill, \u201cthey think that this should happen at MUSIGA, and it\u2019s not happening so MUSIGA is doing anything, but MUSIGA operates differently from what people think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that, most of the critics are those who do not partake in activities of the organisation, including attending scheduled meetings, registering, and paying dues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are not a member, because you don\u2019t come to meetings, you don\u2019t pay your dues, so you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on at MUSIGA,\u201d Bessa Simons stated arguing that &#8220;MUSIGA has done well&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: 65 --><\/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: Myjoyonline.com 2018-01-31 Vice President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bessa Simons Vice President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bessa Simons has described critics of the organisation as ignorant of its roles. The organisation has over the years come under heavy criticism, for not being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460152","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\/460152","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=460152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}