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Movie producer and entertainment pundit, Ola Michael has expressed his doubts about President Akufo-Addo’s pledge to provide tax breaks for Ghana’s film sector.
He felt that the announcement made by the president during the State of the Nation Address on February 27, 2024, was unreliable and came too little, too late.
Ola Michael claimed in an exclusive interview with Isaac Dadzie of GhanaWeb Entertainment that he and other players had been arguing for tax breaks on film projects for a long time, but that their efforts had been continuously ignored.
He claimed that the president’s lack of good faith toward the creative arts sector was evident from his failure to follow through on prior commitments, such as the creation of a streaming platform.
“It’s something that they are thinking about now, which I think is a step in the right direction. We want people to come in to shoot, we want bigger productions to come in… These are things that we’ve been crying about and making noise about. But the question is, are they going to do it?
“Where is the possibility? In 2016, you gave people over eleven promises. You fulfilled none. In 2020, you gave us about four or five, and you have fulfilled none. So what is the guarantee here?” he wondered.
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