Movie producer Socrate Safo has expressed shock over how the booing of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Global Citizen Festival has been carried out in the media space.
To him, the drama that unfolded over the public heckling and booing has been carried out of proportion, explaining that’s not the reality of what happened at the event ground.
He described the booing as a “group of about 10 to 15 people doing that AWAY AWAY thing”, adding that, the majority of the crowd cheered the President up when he was called to address them.
Speaking on Okay FM’s ‘Best Entertainment Show’ hosted by Halifax Ansah-Addo, the Director for Creative Arts at the National Commission on Culture said a small group of people setting an agenda cannot be seen as disaffection from all Ghanaian youths.
“People were excited at the event. When the President came and spoke, people around were extremely happy, a lot of people were cheering him up then later I saw on social media that people booed at the President. I didn’t understand. I was asking myself at what point. How? The crowd came there for fun-making, it's normal others didn’t love the idea of speech reading. They purposely came there to listen to music and enjoy various performances. The narration that the whole crowd booed at the President is pure exaggeration."
He added, “I didn’t see it that way. What I rather saw was that, at far end, a group of about 10 to 15 people doing that AWAY AWAY thing. They were trying hard to push with that. But I’m telling you, the other cheering noise was far more than those who were trying to do the AWAY thing and I saw videos which confirm what I am saying. It was a pocket of people doing that, and they were filming. That’s what has been put out as the crowd booing at the President. The news about it has been exaggerated. To present a picture as if everybody there was booing at the President is something that; I feel is not the true representation”.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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Hypocrites and praise singers like these are the very people who is making the presidents work difficult. Instead of telling him (the president) the truth you go about lying to him, and make him adamant and clueless about the hardships and suffering of the masses Socrates and his likes in the npp are all hypocrites because they refuse to tell the president of truth because of what they stand to lose or gain. Enough said, Socrate bow your head shame. How can you tell us that the booing came from only 15 people. Ehiii so if we are blind doesn’t mean we are deaf. ***barred word***. They should all be sacked from the party (npp)