Popular Ghanaian actor, Van Vicker has blasted Ghanaian Member of Parliament for Anyaa Sowutuom and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Shirley Ayokor Botchwey for saying Parliament is serious business and not for actors.
Ayorkor Botchwey is reported to have said that Parliament is for serious minded people and therefore the people of Ayawaso West Wugon should choose Lydia Alhassan over John Dumelo.
“Parliament is for serious minded people and not people who have done some movies and think they are popular.”
“It is a serious place, I will tell him; the laws of the country are enacted in parliament. If our President can continue his job very well, he needs Lydia Alhassan in Parliament to do the job so that all you need as a constituency will be easily given to you.”
This has not gone down well with a lot of creatives including Van Vicker. To most of these showbiz people, her statement is an insult to the intelligence of people in the sector.
Van Vicker wrote;
I understand that politicians say the damndest things to score political points, however, this reoccurrence rhetoric, that parliament is for ‘SERIOUS PEOPLE’ and the creative arts people (actors & musicians) are ‘UNSERIOUS PEOPLE’ hence should not go to parliament or by extension go into politics, SHOULD END.
This post is NOT about NPP or NDC, it is about what the Hon. Shirley Ayorkor, the Foreign Minister of Ghana said about actors; what she said to a colleague actor @johndumelo1
Now all my creative arts colleagues should be resentful at her utterance and demand an apology, for what she said is indeed racist, discriminatory and such bigotry SHOULD NO LONGER be perpetuated in dividing us as a people.
To put it mildly, who is the ‘UNSERIOUS PERSON’?
is it…
The ‘SERIOUS PERSON’ who watches movies & listens to music MADE BY the ‘UNSERIOUS PERSON’?
or
is it…
The ‘UNSERIOUS PERSON’ who COMPELLS the ‘SERIOUS PERSON’ to do dance moves and recall movie scenes during conversations?
Your guess is as good as mine.
The crux of my post again is not about NPP or NDC. It is about pronouncements that CAN POTENTIALLY cause chaos. If one sees reasons not to use ethnicity, religion or race, etc. as a platform to galvanize people, I opine the same reasons be applied to occupations.
If one wishes to apply the ad hominem fallacy during an argument then so be it because one will only have an individual to deal with, but, do not consciously pull in the hasty generalization fallacy, because one will have a whole industry to deal with.
Madam Ayorkor, you are one of my favorite ministers but the one thing you do not want is to have actors & musicians against you, recall DUMSOR.
We are more popular than you, to say the least, and WE ARE EXTREMELY ‘SERIOUS PEOPLE’.
Long Live Democracy
Long Live Ghana
#vanvicker
#theyounggodfather
Source: Gossips24.com
