There Is No Money To Fight Piracy – Socrate Sarfo

Socrate Sarfo, Director of Creative Arts, Programs and Projects at the National Commission on Culture, has troubling news. He has stated that lack of funds is the major problem facing the fight against piracy.

He made this known on Daybreak Hitz with Andy Dosty.

Socrate Sarfo blamed the situation on the Ghana Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS). This is a system of accessing funds from the government to embark on projects to fight piracy.

Moreover, he explained what the system was.

Socrate Sarfo Explains

“Money needed to fight piracy goes to the government. These funds are not easily accessible. We have to go through the GIFMIS system to retrieve them and this can take up to three months. We can’t fight piracy with this kind of structure.” 

He seemed disturbed about the system. However, he threw a challenge to industry people to unite as a body and fight against the system.

Moreover, he was optimistic about the fact that this system can be changed.

Furthermore, he assured that the GIFMIS needed to be ruled out. This is to ensure piracy becomes a thing of the past.

“…This is about the collective society and the structure is wrong. We all have to come together and fight the system. If it is not addressed we are always going to complain and suffer.

GIFMIS launched in September 2009, as part of the Public Financial Management (PFM) Reforms in Ghana.