According to the President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey, the government is concerned about the low quality of music production in the country, hence the decision to set up a studio that meets international standards.

“The government will set up an ultra-modern music studio so that after individual producers have done the basic programming, they can go to there to master them,” he said.

He said in tandem with this, the government will take some Ghanaian music producers abroad for training to broaden their scope in music production.

“One of the things this government has for the musician is that we’ve realized the standards in the music industry is continuously falling. This is made manifest when you play a Ghanaian song after songs produced from Nigeria or South Africa you realize a drop in the quality and this is because we are recording below standards so we want to move a notch higher,” he said.

He made this revelation at the 2nd Annual General Meeting of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) which took place on Thursday, 27^th July, 2017 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

The 2016 NPP Manifesto on creative arts

The New Patriotic Party prior to assuming office laid down these items for the arts sector in its 2016 Manifesto:

• establish a Creative Arts Fund to make available funds to modernise and develop the sector
• create a Division of the High Court, focusing on the Creative Arts to deal with all matters relating to intellectual property rights, complete with a dedicated enforcement unit
• establish a Creative Arts Council to coordinate and harmonise the various interests and fragmented associations into a well-functioning body to protect the interests of members.
• collaborate with private sector interests to acquire the technology and equipment needed to log creative works, in order to determine true and deserved royalties.
• promote regional and district literature, music, dance and drama competitions, particularly in schools and colleges, and
• pursue the construction of modern large seating theatres in every regional capital except Accra, beginning with Takoradi, Tamale and Kumasi, as well as setting up an additional Copyright Office in Tamale to cater for the northern sector in addition to the existing ones in Accra and Kumasi.

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By: Kwame Dadzie/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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The team includes Mark Okraku Mantey, as President, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo; daughter of President Akufo-Addo as Director, and actress BiBi Bright as Secretary.

The team, as part of its terms of reference, will embark on a road-show across the country, to nominate members that would make up the Creative Arts Council.

Catherine Afeku, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, introducing the team, said the nominations to the Council would be in consultation with Creative Arts Associations.

She said as per their mandate, the team would also select veterans in the industry to form a five-member governing board, which would guide the activities of the Council.

The Minister said with the confidence reposed in the team, she was of the hope that they would come back with a good recommendation and comprehensive list to form the Council.

She encouraged the Creative Arts practitioners to own the sector as the yet-to-be inaugurated Council would engage more with stakeholders to improve on the sector.

Mr. Mantey expressed gratitude on behalf of the team to the Minister for appointing them to lead the Council.

He said the team would focus more on the Creative Arts Bill to serve its intended purpose, adding that with the formation of the Creative Arts Council, some sanity would be brought into the industry.

He said the team would make sure Ghana becomes the gateway to the creative Arts hub of Africa.

“We are opened to contributions and suggestions to promote the interest of industry players” he said.

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Source: GNA

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