The stakeholders in the Creative Arts sector would soon have a new minister to complain about as the President has ‘sacked’ Catherine Afeku in his latest ministerial reshuffle.
The much-maligned Afeku, first appointed as Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts after the President came into office in 2017, is now a Minister of State at the Presidency.
Catherine Afeku is making a massive splash in the news this week due to her contentious vetting, but on the lighter side, she and her husband put on an unexpected show of PDA that had everyone around in shock.
Afeku had just come out of her grilling session with members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee as they questioned her on how she plans to take charge of her new role. as Minister For Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts.
Socrate Safo is in line to head up an important department in the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administration, except it’s not the one he has been lobbying for all along.
Safo has been taken out of the running for the deputy Minister for Tourism, Creative Arts and Culture and instead, is in line for a role as head of the National Commission on Culture.
The president has created a new ministry or minister-designate as he promised for the creative industry. Therefore, the creative industry is no longer under the umbrella of Chieftaincy and Culture. There is now a minister-designated to oversee or handle (you choose) the Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Ministry, Rashid Pelpuo. Socrate Sarfo has expressed his … Read more
