{"id":65619,"date":"2023-05-10T15:51:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/10\/baba-sadiq-suggests-critics-have-been-lenient-on-awal-and-okraku-mantey\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:51:58","slug":"baba-sadiq-suggests-critics-have-been-lenient-on-awal-and-okraku-mantey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/10\/baba-sadiq-suggests-critics-have-been-lenient-on-awal-and-okraku-mantey\/","title":{"rendered":"Baba Sadiq suggests critics have been lenient on Awal and Okraku-Mantey\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Baba Sadiq believes the entertainment industry has not been hard enough on the ministers of tourism, arts and culture than they were on a former minister of the sector, Catherine Afeku.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Okaikoi Central NDC Parliamentary hopeful asserts that the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mohammed Awal and his Deputy, Mark Okraku-Mantey have been spared the rod even though they have performed poorly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that have probably restrained a lot of people from taking the government on may be because of Mark and his relationship with people. Because if I remember how vociferous the industry was during Catherine Afeku\u2019s time, one would not hold back to say we probably were unfair to Catherine Afeku,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he thought the industry has been lenient on the current two ministers, he answers in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mark-Okraku-Mantey.jpg\" alt=\"Baba Sadiq suggests critics have been lenient on Awal and Okraku-Mantey\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032305568 lazy\" width=\"816\" height=\"543\"  data- title=\"Baba Sadiq suggests critics have been lenient on Awal and Okraku-Mantey\u00a0\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mark Okraku-Mantey \u2013 Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOf course [we\u2019ve been lenient on them]. I mean it you look at all the things that Catherine Afeku did, and to think about how we were very vociferous, we are almost every week on her case, I think that in the last four years we have done to Mark and Awal is less,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Awal-Mohammed.webp.webp\" alt=\"Baba Sadiq suggests critics have been lenient on Awal and Okraku-Mantey\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032305570 lazy\" title=\"Baba Sadiq suggests critics have been lenient on Awal and Okraku-Mantey\u00a0\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Awal Mohammed \u2013 Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In an interview on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s  A-Z,<\/strong> Baba said Catherine Afeku, who was the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture from 2017 to 2019 was seriously mauled even though she made great strides.<\/p>\n<p>According to the former Chief Executive Office (CEO) of 3Music Network, Catherine was very instrumental in the Year of Return and its related activities that brought into the country a lot of visitors into the country in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere are the stakeholders that were very loud during Catherine Afeku\u2019s time? Almost everybody is quiet because their guy Mark is there. But then again it\u2019s been very disappointing. Because for Catherine Afeku if you are not going to give her anything the active role she played in the evolution and development of the Year of Return must be commended. She carried it,\u201d he told the host Kwame Dadzie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1018\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Catherine-Afeku-1018x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Baba Sadiq suggests critics have been lenient on Awal and Okraku-Mantey\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032305571 lazy\"  data- title=\"Baba Sadiq suggests critics have been lenient on Awal and Okraku-Mantey\u00a0\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Catherine Afeku \u2013 Former Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Baba Sadiq who is contesting the NDC parliamentary seat in Okaikoi Central Constituency has also said that if his party wins party and he is asked to take a role at the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture he will gladly accept it.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the NDC presidential parliamentary election is slated for Saturday, May 13, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 900\"> Tags: \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baba Sadiq believes the entertainment industry has not been hard enough on the ministers of tourism, arts and culture than they were on a former minister of the sector, Catherine Afeku.\u00a0 The Okaikoi Central NDC Parliamentary hopeful asserts that the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mohammed Awal and his Deputy, Mark Okraku-Mantey have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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