The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has started reacting to controversies surrounding beauty pageants in the industry, by striking on one pageant named, Miss Supranational which is fraught with a number of scandalous issues.
Miss Supranational Ghana is a beauty pageant with a mission of raising role models with a module of “Beauty with Talent and not Beauty with Sex.” It showcases talents, cultural heritage and rich tourism potentials to the world and attracts tourists from all over the world. It sends representatives to the Miss Supranational pageant.
Though the pageant is a good initiative, it is fraught with a number of scandalous issues. Investigation by GhanaCelebrities.Com revealed the following about the pageant: first, the organizers collected phones belonging to the contestants but all the phones got lost. Though the contestants have continuously demanded for their phones, the organizers have paid deaf ears.
Secondly, they used the name – Ministry of Tourism as one of their supporters of the pageant without the ministry’s notice or approval. Thirdly, the organizers do not permit the contestants who are being housed to attend church service on Sundays which is a big worry to the latter.
Fourthly, the security of the contestants who are housed in a hotel in Weija is not fully assured because the hotel has no security guard at post.
Fifthly, the contestants are very pessimistic of receiving their price package because the organizers keep complaining of money constraints every short while to them.