Jackson K Bentum and Agya Koo
A Kumasi Based Film Director Jackson K. Bentum has shared some few facts about the origination and ownership of the Ghana Movie Industry since Alexander Kofi Adu known as Agya Koo is gaining credit as a resurgence of Ghana Movies.
Film Director, Jackson K. Bentum, is not the type to shy away from controversy, often producing hit movies laced with comic scenes.
This time, he has turned the fire on Ace Actor Agya Koo, refuting the notion that the King Kong of Akan Movie is the revival of the film industry.
It’s been a long-held belief that the Ace Actor/cum Comedian is the one who revived the Ghana Film Industry, but Mr. Bentum has dared to set off for what he told Busumuru Sean Kinston of SeanCitygh.com was a “distorted history” and is ready to set the records straight.
Perhaps, we have entered an era of setting records straight concerning the true history of Ghanaian Movie Industry. And Jackson Bentum‘s challenge of what is regarded as Agya Koo’s legacy comes just weeks after Agya Koo granted an interview with Ashh FM in Kumasi that his absence on screen has created a vacuum for numerous trash on our local television stations.
This he said didn’t auger well with section of the industry players including Jackson K. Bentum, who is on heat to set the record straight about who really revived the Ghana Movie Industry from an abyss.
"There are some artistes taken credits of the successful story of Ghanaian movies, they should stay away from such behavior because the people who made Ghanaian movie successful was not any artiste but the hard work of executive producers like William Akuffo, Bob Smith Jnr (Diabolo), H.M Films, Hacky films, Alexy Boat, Miracle films, Venus films, A.A Production, and many others, credit should go to them not Agya Koo".
Jackson K Bentum told Busumuru in an interview that, claims that Agya Koo resurrected the Ghana Film Industry is false, "he never resurrected the film industry, So I'm telling him to stop claiming those credits’’ he lamented.
"Before Agya Koo entry, there were so many artistes in the industry including Bill Asamoah, King Aboagye Brenya, Dzifa Gomashie, David Dontoh, Kwaku Twumasi, Bukum Lion, the late Bob Santo, Kofi Adjololo, Mac Jordan Amartey, Grace Omabo and others, these persons have all not claimed the credits of resurrecting the film industry".
Mr. Bentum, who won best script writer in 2012 Kumawood awards, was emphatical that the movie industry is a collective idea so any individual who claimed credit for resurrecting the film industry is a big lie.
He strongly refuted the notion that Agya Koo stopped Nigerian movies from coming to Ghana.
"Where did he stop the Nigerians from coming into Ghana? Is a big lie’’. The executive producers who used their money to make sure Ghana movies sustain have not called for any credits’’ he added
Jackson Bentum called on media houses to contact right people for the true history of the Ghana movie industry.
