Film Producer and currently the National President of the Film Producers' Association of Ghana (FIPAG) has appealed to government to  strongly effect the laws relating to the Ghanaian Cultural Policy especially content on television to help instill moral values in the youth.

He disclosed that the introduction of the Ghana Culture Forum (GCF) in the Ashanti Region could be influencing if cultural stakeholders across the country are identified and educated on the move, enlightening that such people through their daily performances could help to feast the forum across the nation to revive the heritage, which has long been misplaced.

“The government must change certain laws in the Nation’s cultural policy to help prompt some discipline in the country in terms of the media. Even if they (government) are not ready to do that now, the laws must strongly work especially content of TV.

“Television has been something else of late. People project money rituals on television and it is heavily affecting citizens through laziness which generates greed for man’s greatest desire towards money.

“Majority of our content is of foreign autographs which is a direct opposite of our culture. We are appealing to parliament to modify the policy in order for Ghanaians to treat it as an essential element for national development. If we can progress as a nation, culture cannot be left out,” he said.

The Ashanti Regional Chapter Chairman of the Ghana Culture Forum further addressed that although majority of cultured organizations convene at the Center for National Culture for a course yet the Ashanti Regional Chapter need to go beyond that to the various Districts to give a grounding to the course.

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“The first mandate I can do is to locate the whereabouts of cultural organizations in the Ashanti Region and publicize on the need of the Ghana Culture Forum and its significance to the Nation and beyond. Although majority of them meet at the Cultural Center yet we have others in the various areas. It is our mandate to identify and make them our members to begin this development,” he made known to the press after the Inaugural Ceremony on Thursday, February 13, 2020.

The Ghana Culture Forum (GCF) was proposed and initiated at the Consultative Forum on the power of Culture in Development organized by UNESCO and held at the African Royal Beach Hotel, Nungua Accra on April 28, 2011. It dawned very strongly on participants that if UNESCO had not organized and brought together the cultural stakeholders, there would be no platform on which the strategies for mainstreaming culture would be discussed for National progress.

Mr. Aboagye on the issue of challenges expatiated that people would definitely defy the approach with the mindset of money persuasion and many others yet such factors cannot dishonor their mandates to position Ghana in a suitable cultural rank.

“So far as we are human, we have challenges to overcome because people would have the perception that if the Forum is an association and their services are required, then in one way or the other, you need their money and ideas to make it a reality.

“Others will also disagree to the approach thinking its purposely to deny their mandate towards their members therefore they would not see the importance to join and be ruled by the leaders. This and many matters we will encounter but that wouldn’t quench our love to make a meaningful impact through culture,” he said.