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The Founder of Genfi’s Art Gallery, Mr Kwaku Genfi has called on the government and stakeholders to invest more in the creative arts industry to make it attractive for the younger generation.
According to him, the world now revolved around creative arts and when invested in would not only promote Ghanaian culture but be lucrative for the youth.
According to Mr.Genfi, this could help reduce the unemployment rate in the country.
Mr Genfi made the call at the opening of Genfi’s Art Gallery over the weekend, featuring Ghanaian cultural crafts, and paintings.
“Arts is everything as the world revolves around it, be it technology, buildings, culture, designs, paintings among others, almost everything has an artistic theme in it, that is why stakeholders need to invest in the sector to develop it,” he said.
He said Ghanaians believed that creative arts was a profession that was not lucrative enough to pursue or invest in, so much attention was not given to it.
However, he said the industry was a very lucrative one that everyone should pay attention to or pursue as a career.
“In the Western world, they know the future will be brighter with creative arts and already the world right now is all about being creative, so we should pay more attention to it as people are making a lot of money from it than you can imagine,” he noted.
Therefore, the Ghanaian Artist urged investors and stakeholders to invest and support the industry to grow and expand.
Mr Genfi also urged parents to allow their children to pursue creative arts as a career and support them when they are in it already.
Having painted over 30 paintings only this year, he noted it was his dream to train and mentor younger artists in the country to build up their skills.
He also noted that launching the gallery was to motivate other artists to focus more on their art and see it as a profession as they could make a better living with it.
To promote and expand the creative arts industry, he urged the government to build more technical schools to train and expose students to the creative arts world.
This he said would not only build their skills but would also encourage them to always paint and be creative.
“If anybody is willing to help a young person who is talented in any way, they should go ahead as it will go a long way in assisting them since we the industry players cannot do it alone,” he said.
BY CECILIA LAGBA
The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, Frank Annoh Dompreh, has expressed concern over delays in the release of the District Assemblies Common Fund, warning that the situation is stalling development across the country.
On his facebook page, he described as a matter of urgent national importance, the Minority Chief Whip pointed to what he sees as a growing crisis of unpaid contractors, abandoned projects, and halted infrastructure works in many districts.
He noted that several communities are grappling with half completed schools, unfinished health facilities, abandoned markets, deteriorating roads, and stalled sanitation projects.
According to him, many contractors who have executed projects for district assemblies have not been paid, forcing some construction firms to demobilise from sites while workers lose their jobs.
He stressed that the District Assemblies Common Fund is not a discretionary allocation but a constitutional requirement under Article 252 of the 1992 Constitution, intended to support development at the local level.
In his view, years of delayed releases and accumulated arrears have weakened district development financing and disrupted projects meant to improve living conditions in communities.
He further argued that some payments made in recent years were largely the settlement of old debts rather than funding for new or ongoing projects, a situation he believes has affected contractor confidence and local economic activity.
He described the issue as more than a budgetary challenge, characterising it as a development emergency and a governance concern.
He therefore urged the appropriate authorities to pay outstanding DACF arrears, settle contractors who have completed their work, and ensure that transfers to districts are automatic and predictable.
He maintained that decentralisation can only succeed when district assemblies receive adequate and timely funding to carry out development projects.
He emphasised that stalled projects directly affect ordinary citizens, since they rely on such infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, sanitation, and economic activities.
He called for renewed attention to grassroots development, insisting that national progress should not be concentrated only in major cities but extended to all communities.
By: Jacob Aggrey
Richard Appiah, the footballer who killed two children and stored part of their bodies in a fridge at Abesim in the Bono Region in 2021 has been handed a lifetime sentence.
This was after a five member panel of judges at the Accra High Court returned a verdict of guilty against the convict.
Appiah, 32, also a draughtsman would spend the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted of murder.
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BY MALIK SULLEMANA
