{"id":469060,"date":"2018-03-02T07:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/catherine-afeku-only-good-at-touring-kumasi-film-director\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T07:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T07:33:06","slug":"catherine-afeku-only-good-at-touring-kumasi-film-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/02\/catherine-afeku-only-good-at-touring-kumasi-film-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Afeku only good at touring \u2013 Kumasi film director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday,  1 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghbase.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-01<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/52888711.295.jpg\" alt=\"James Aboagye Catherine Afeku\" title=\"James Aboagye Catherine Afeku\" width=\"295\" height=\"148\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>James Aboagye and Catherine Afeku<\/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\/03\/1519975986_250_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A Kumasi-based film director James Aboagye has launched a scathing attack on the Minister of Tourism Creative Arts and Culture, Catherine Ablema Afeku for neglecting the ailing Ghanaian film industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Minister is only good at touring sites in Ghana and other countries whiles the film industry suffers. He further described the \u2018Nzema Yaa Asantewaa\u2019 as a non-performing minister for channeling all her energies into one aspect of her ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Austine Woode on Ultimate Showbiz, he described Madam Catherine as a \u2018tourist minister\u2019 who hovers from one place to the other enjoying the various tourist sites in Ghana and abroad. Mr Aboagye said the Minister is fixated on tourism activities leaving the film industry which generates revenue for the country to its fate.<\/p>\n<p>An incensed film director questioned the successes chalked by the minister since her assumption in office saying film industry players are losing faith in President Akufo-Addo due to the conduct of his minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our minister is a tourist minister, she herself is touring, she\u2019s touring, she has forgotten the whole ministry. She has become a tourist herself. She\u2019s enjoying the tourism activity, what has she done since she came into office to even know the ministry she\u2019s supposed to manage\u2026All her activities have been tourism, today you see her here, tomorrow another place all in the name of tourism. Our Cabinet Minister Catherine Afeku is not performing,&#8221; he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Aboagye wondered if the Minister has been able to identify any groups in the film industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don\u2019t even know that when it comes to the ministry, we have film actors, film producers the crew, musicians, music we have different categories, we have the \u2018nyumkro\u2019, \u2018densuomu, \u2018kora music\u2019, highlife, different groups. Has she been able to identify all these groups?, no,&#8221; he fumed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Aboagye bemoaned the laws which do not protect locally produced movies adding that film makers lack training to enhance their career. He complained that the entertainment industry which can employ a chunk of the youth have been neglected saying successive governments have only paid lip-service.<\/p>\n<p>We need somebody who will understand the issues, so that we sit down and discuss all these quality movies people are talking, we know our shortcomings, but the issues is that where do we get the quality, nobody trains the film makers,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that the ministry be divided into two to enable the minister concentrate fully on tourism. He appealed to the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to pay attention to the film industry which is on the verge of collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we are given the support, we can do it, because we have done it before, all we need is institutions to work for us. 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