{"id":1212786,"date":"2022-09-28T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/kirani-ayat-takes-on-govt-over-tourism-video-demands-name-of-agency-engaged-for-the-project\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:38:33","slug":"kirani-ayat-takes-on-govt-over-tourism-video-demands-name-of-agency-engaged-for-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/kirani-ayat-takes-on-govt-over-tourism-video-demands-name-of-agency-engaged-for-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirani Ayat takes on gov&#8217;t over tourism video; demands name of agency engaged for the project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghanaian singer, Kirani Ayat, is breathing fire on the neck of government after he accused it of\u00a0using some visuals from his Buga video in its \u201cVisit Ghana\u201d campaign without his knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s Twitter handle posted a video on September 27, 2022, depicting the country\u2019s tourism potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Beneath the deep blue sky, the Black Star is calling. Follow the stars and let them take you on a journey of our people. I invite everyone to the country at the centre of the world \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ghana?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ghana<\/a> \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VisitGhana2022?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VisitGhana2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2m5KC2QTkt\">pic.twitter.com\/2m5KC2QTkt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo\/status\/1574689088053149696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ayat later retweeted the video with the following comment: The president of Ghana has used my video \u201cGUDA\u201d in this ad to promote Ghana. I was actively reaching out to the Ministry of Tourism in 2018\/19 to use this video to push tourism in the North and got NO reply, yet today it\u2019s in an ad and no one reached out to me for permission\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The president of Ghana has used my video \u201cGUDA\u201d in this ad to promote Ghana. I was actively reaching out to the Ministry of Tourism in 2018\/19 to use this video to push tourism in the North and got NO reply, yet today it\u2019s in an ad and no one reached out to me for permission. \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/vLnAP0bRqf<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kirani Ayat \ud83c\udf0d (@KiraniAYAT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KiraniAYAT\/status\/1574701602153414656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) claimed an agency contracted to put together the campaign was responsible for using the visuals in 2019, Mr. Ayat is not accepting such an excuse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-883772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-28-at-5.18.14-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"960\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>While reacting to the press statement issued by the Ghana Tourism Authority, Mr. Ayat insisted that the GTA should publish details of the contract for the promotional video.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ayat, he has had no engagement with any agency regarding the use of his material for the Visit Ghana project, and thus demands that the full contract containing the name of the agency and other information be made available to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Mr. Ayat\u2019s full statement below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-883761 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8DB90D71-B7B9-4932-9831-54D23A00D6A5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"MJXwZqGDjCg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Workers shii jama with Kwan Pa Band at Citi Business Olympics 2022\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJXwZqGDjCg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian singer, Kirani Ayat, is breathing fire on the neck of government after he accused it of\u00a0using some visuals from his Buga video in its \u201cVisit Ghana\u201d campaign without his knowledge. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s Twitter handle posted a video on September 27, 2022, depicting the country\u2019s tourism potential. \u00a0 Beneath the deep blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}