The government of Akufo Addo has done nothing to promote creative arts in the Ashanti area

For the development of a contemporary theater in Kumasi, the Ministry of Tourism, Arts, and Culture signed an agreement with China Bengbu International Technology and Economic Cooperation Limited (CBITEC), a technical conglomerate that specializes in international design, construction, and project management.

On Saturday, September 5, 2020, the MoU was signed in Kumasi.

Mrs. Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, the sector minister at the time, signed on behalf of the ministry, and Mr. Li Zhongchun, the business executive of CBITEC, signed on behalf of the company. Mr. Osei Assibey Antwi, the metropolitan chief executive (MCE) for Kumasi, served as a witness.7

By the end of 2022, the Kumasi theater promised by the government would be fully completed, according to Mark Okraku Mantey, the current Deputy Minister for Tourism, Arts, and Culture.

This information was revealed by Mr. Okraku Mantey during a radio interview on an Accra-based FM station.

"Government's responsibility for the creative industry is to build an enabling environment, provide you the logistics that as individuals we cannot purchase, like a theater," he remarked.

Because of this, the creative arts school in Kumasi currently boasts a theater that can accommodate around 2000 people.

"Four years ago, when I was among you, we asked for it, and the President has taken action that we must now begin.

Pictures of Kumasi's theater will be available by next year. The theater will be finished by the end of the next year, he continued.

However, as 2022 draws to a close, the NPP government, led by Akufo Addo, has yet to build the Kumasi theater that was promised in the Ashanti region's capital Kumasi.

Ruthy responded to this in the studios of Kumasi-based Nhyira FM, saying she thought the Akufo Addo-led NPP administration had done little to advance the region's creative arts industry since taking office.