The official President John Dramani Mahama’s twitter page has tweeted, and the message is pretty clear—the smoke coming out of the kitchen is worrying.
The social media Dumsor campaign has intensified, though, it has somewhat become an opportunity to insult and be mischievous for some people.
Being offensive or unleashing attacks in every campaign is not forbidden but such actions mostly taint the campaign so in a tweet, the president wrote; “The division in our politics is bad enough. Let it not spread to our creative industry. Let’s cease the polemics. — JM”
In effect, the president is not asking for the activism in the Creative Arts Industry to stop, he is only saying, the manner and shape in which this activism is taking place must be re-considered.
For a few days now, Ghanaians are making good use of social media, sending all manner of messages and discussing the unbearable power crisis they find themselves in—made worse by the government’s inability to honour his promise of finding a fix.
This has brought out the animals in some people, sometimes led by our own celebrities and it seems it’s the cannibalistic attacks that our president is not comfortable with. Which means, he well understands the fight being put up on social media and has nothing against it.
The question is; is he going to do anything about the situation which is giving breathing space the polemics? I mean, fix Dumsor within the shortest possible time?
This President is a liar and hypocrite. If he thinks it shouldn’t extend to the creative arts industry then u should have showed the way by not using people in creative arts for political campaigning. Once you do that then you don’t turn around three years and say they shouldn’t engage in polemics. If he has done extensive research, hell realise the creative arts all over the world throughout history thrives on polemics in order to fight dictators,evils and stimulate natnl devt. From Socrates,Shakespeare,Bob Marley,Lucky dube etc engaged in polemics. The creative arts industry has to be political but not partisan. Mr.President there is a difference and once again if you aren’t solving our problems you don’t have to comment about everything. Wo yaa pe kasa dodo.