The Ban On Alcoholic And Gaming Companies Won’t Affect Me But It Has to Be Lifted To Help Others – Shatta Wale

Multiple Award Winning Dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, widely known as Shatta Wale, has called on other musicians in Ghana to come together and protest the ban placed on them by the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and the Gaming Commission of Ghana.

The FDA in 2015 banned Ghanaian celebrities from advertising alcoholic beverages on the basis that it was influencing the youths in a negative way.

According to the regulator, the ban was in adherence to a World Health Organisation policy.

Reacting to this, Shatta Wale in a live Facebook video on Wednesday, October 14 urged all the creative arts industry players to support him to compel the regulator to scrap the laws, banning them from advertising for betting companies and alcohol beverages.

“Those in the creative act industry should wake and stand against the ban of advertising for alcoholic drinks and sports betting. This is very sad but it will not affect me but rather other people in the industry,” he said.

He went on further to say, “Actors, actress and anybody in the creative arts industry will lose a lot if this ban is not lifted. Ghanaian celebrities should wake up and talk against some laws of the FDA and the Gaming Commission.”

“We as a nation should change the way we do our things sometime, because it is not everything that will help us as we are going forward as individuals,” he added.

Just like Shatta Wale, Songstress Wendy Shay has threatened to sue the Food and Drugs authority for their ban.

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