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Entertainment on Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Source: Peace FM
2020-10-27
Socrate Sarfo, Director of Creative Arts, NCC
Film producer Socrates Sarfo criticized actress Yvonne Nelson and other Ghanaian celebrities who pressured Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to make a statement about the brutalities in neighboring Nigeria that have claimed numerous lives as a result of recent protests in the country.
For about two weeks now, Nigerians have embarked on continuous street protests against police brutalities in the country.
The protest, which started out peaceful, turned bloody when thugs and security personnel fired at civilian protesters.
Although the Nigerian government has refuted claims that some citizens have died in the protest, the situation in Nigeria has attracted the world’s attention.
#EndSars, #endpolicebrutalities among others have become the trending hashtags on Twitter and Instagram.
Ghanaian celebrities such as Yvonne Nelson, Lydia Forson and Nana Aba Anamoah, among others, took to their social networks and asked the president to intervene in the Nigerian situation in his capacity as ECOWAS president and African leader.
Yvonne Nelson tweeted; “Our president must show leadership in this matter, otherwise he becomes complicit in the senseless murder of innocent and defenseless protesters @NAkufoAddo.”
Socrates Sarfo, speaking about Okay FM’s “Best Entertainment”, fired salutes at Yvonne Nelson and her co-celebrities for their tweets to the president.
He questioned the logic in particular in Yvonne Nelson’s tweet.
Responding to why President Akufo-Addo was late in releasing an official statement on the Nigerian situation, he stressed that any sensible leader does not speak from memory. ”
In his opinion, the president as director of ECOWAS and Ghana does not jump on the train, but takes his time to evaluate things before making official statements.
” There is something called diplomacy. In diplomacy, you don’t talk about memory in public … Presidency, they use common sense. They study the terrain. They smell. They have people who do all this, who advise. ”
He warned Yvonne Nelson and her ilk to resist the temptation to get acquainted with the president, stating emphatically that “familiarity breeds contempt.”
The film’s producer also recommended to these celebrities that they give the president the utmost respect as a Head of State and an older person, adding that they should take their statements into account when talking to and about the president.
” Do you know what leadership means?
” They are excited to talk. There is a difference between condemning something as a celebrity and the difference between calling the president to speak. The emotion is not about the fact that we are condemning what is happening, but the emotion aspect is having the guts that you are taking advantage of the freedom that you have to call your president as if he were your son, who should go. and talk, ” he advised.
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