Creative Arts Council is hoarding our CapBuss Fund - MUSIGA Members

Members of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) have revealed that the Creative arts council is yet to give out loans from obtained from the Akufo-Addo led government with regards to the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) Business Support Scheme

Creative Arts Council is hoarding our CapBuss Fund - MUSIGA Members
Representatives of the Creative Arts Council lead by the President, Mr. Mark Okraku-Mantey and some media personnel on a courtesy call to the Ghana Embassy in Madrid, Spain

Members of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) have voiced their frustrations of the non-allocation of the loan they were promised.

An ardent member, the CEO of EML Entertainment LTD Emmanuel Emmel Kwame Edem Doe-Bruce, expressed his bewilderment over the delay in giving out loans from the Coronavirus Alleviation Programme (CAP) Business Support Scheme also known as CapBuss Fund.

According to him, the Creative Arts Council is not being transparent with the disbursement of the GHC50 million from the Akufo-Addo government to the Creative Arts industry.

"It's a shame that as at now, the Anidasuo loan we heard about that the government has given to creative arts is still having issues and we the musicians union are finding it difficult to get our loans" he lamented.

"The coronavirus had brought a lot of hardship to the citizens and has affected the economy, due to the effect, the government or president we heard has disbursed some funds to every sector of the economy including the creative art sector, most of these sectors have received their funds excepts for a few including the majority of the creative art practitioners and this is very worrying.

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The Finance Minister, while delivering the 2020 budget mid-year review before Parliament, indicated the government is allocating the money to cushion the Creative Arts and media.

The news was then confirmed by the interim president of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey but players are still complaining about accessing this fund.

"The president, the Land, and finance minister and other ministers have come out to say that they have given 50 million to the creative art and still the majority of the creative art are complaining they have not received their money from the creative art if the interim president of the creative art council has come out on radio station that the government has given the sector 50 million then what is really happening," he asked dispiritedly.