Executive Secretary of the Creative Arts Agency, Gideon Aryeequaye, has disclosed that the agency had to rebuild its online presence from scratch after its past leadership failed to hand over social media access.
Gideon Aryeequaye told Showbiz A-Z that the ‘missing’ credentials left the agency unable to manage its platforms until an outside party intervened.
Aryeequaye said when his team took office, they found a duplicate website and social media accounts that they could not access because the credentials were not surrendered by his predecessor, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo.
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He noted that to resolve the issues, the agency contacted the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), which cleared the old entries from the system so the Creative Arts Agency could start afresh.
The Executive Secretary further stated that the Creative Arts Agency is yet to receive financial support from any government institution, noting that daily operations are being sustained through personal funds.
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“None at all. So, we’re actually doing things our own way. Those that we have to finance it from our own pockets; we document them so that in future it will be reversed to us. When we came in, we realised that there was a dual website. For some reason, I’m not too sure why it happened like that. And then all the social media credentials that were existing at the time, my predecessor would not give us the credentials.
“So, we had to consult NITA. NITA had to come in and expunge everything from the system. So, we started afresh. So, we had to do a new website which we were going to launch during the rebranding. And this is going to be a very comprehensive one, interactive one. Something that will be one-stop,” he said.
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