Workshop on Creative Arts bill in Ho

With a blend of culture, economics and technology, the creative art industry will be strengthened to become a formidable market zone.

Also, the industry is poised for restructuring and when organised in a special way, it will enable it play a significant role just like it had contributed to the economy of developed nations.

The board chairman of Ghana Tourist Authority (GTA), Mr Akunu Dake made these remarks at a sensitisation workshop on the creative arts towards the formulation of a Creative Arts Bill in Ho.

It was organised by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Tourism to seek the views of players in the industry in the Volta Region.

It was an interaction between the players of the creative arts industry and legislators drawn from the Attorney General’s Department.

Addressing the participants, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare said, “a law was needed to back the operations of the creative art industry and implored participants to come out with good suggestions towards the formulation of a good Bill”.

She announced that a Creative Arts secretariat will be established by June this year, adding that, the government had released GH¢20 million to the creative arts sector and advised industry players “to access the fund through the submission of good proposals in order to reduce joblessness in the economy”.

In an address, the Volta Regional Minister, Ms Helen Adjoa Ntoso said the Volta Region had a lot of tourist attractions which needed to be developed to earn foreign exchange and that they should avail themselves to the fundamentals in order to reap the gains in the tourism industry.

She also said they should be well informed against needless propaganda that the government was doing nothing for the Volta Region.