FIPAG accuses MUSIGA of hoarding creative industry fund





The Film producers Association Ghana is accusing the the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) of hoarding the creative industry fund created by government. Government in the 2013 budget, allocated an amount of GH¢3 million to better the lot of the creative industry, but the according The former vice president of the film producers Association of Ghana who is also the chairman of the transitional committee Ben Imoro the Musician Association Ghana selfishly took the money with the involvement of other players in the creative industry. He says they have no option to fall on financial institution to support the struggling film industry.
The Film Producers Association Ghana is currently holding its congress in Kumasi to elect new executives for the Association.
The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) is single-handedly spending the entire GH¢3 million (¢20 billion) the government of Ghana set aside in the 2013 budget to boost the creative arts industry.
Other stakeholders in the arts industry have taken on MUSIGA, asking the union to vomit the money because musicians alone cannot and do not represent the entire creative arts industry.
The circumstances under which the Ministry of Finance released the money to MUSIGA alone is quite mysterious, especially when the Minister of Finance, in reading the budget statement, had categorically stated that the money was for the creative arts industry.

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