{"id":754900,"date":"2019-11-29T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/29\/shatta-wale-has-concerns-about-year-of-return-initiative\/"},"modified":"2019-11-29T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:16:28","slug":"shatta-wale-has-concerns-about-year-of-return-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/29\/shatta-wale-has-concerns-about-year-of-return-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatta Wale has concerns about &#8216;Year of Return&#8217; initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"387\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Shatta-Wale-Copy-696x387.png\"   alt=\"Shatta Wale\" title=\"Shatta-Wale (Copy)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo: Shatta Wale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Award-winning dancehall musician, Shatta Wale is of the view that Ghana is having no direct benefit from the Year of Return (YoR) initiative. <\/p>\n<p>According to him, there are no visuals such as billboards, activation or adverts showing Ghana is championing the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou go to hotels and nothing shows we are having YoR initiative yet visitors are coming in and out and we don\u2019t have anything showcasing the initiative. Go to the airport, anyone entering the country doesn\u2019t have anything telling or showcasing Year of Return is happening in Ghana,\u201d he said on <strong>Daybreak Hitz<\/strong> on <strong>Hitz FM<\/strong>, monitored by <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The musician said the total awareness and transparency on the part of the government is key to make the whole Year of Return concept materialise.<\/p>\n<p>Shatta opined that through such conscious efforts, local businesses will thrive and further create employment for the unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything should show. This is the time we can have businesses grow. People come and enter president\u2019s office. If they are signing checks we don\u2019t even know. They should involve the citizens. We are the people who put them there to work for us. The next time they do this, they should educate us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis thing can create employment for everyone. People will get jobs to do. People are talking about how they\u2019re suffering but no one is listening. There are no groups fighting the president to push the initiative. I believe what I am saying will get to them to perform better next time,\u201d he told Andy Dosty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo: Shatta Wale Award-winning dancehall musician, Shatta Wale is of the view that Ghana is having no direct benefit from the Year of Return (YoR) initiative. According to him, there are no visuals such as billboards, activation or adverts showing Ghana is championing the initiative. \u201cYou go to hotels and nothing shows we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shatta Wale has concerns about &#039;Year of Return&#039; initiative - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/29\/shatta-wale-has-concerns-about-year-of-return-initiative\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Shatta Wale has concerns about &#039;Year of Return&#039; initiative - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"File photo: Shatta Wale Award-winning dancehall musician, Shatta Wale is of the view that Ghana is having no direct benefit from the Year of Return (YoR) initiative. 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