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Reliable information available to Peacefmonline.com indicates that outspoken movie producer and CEO of Movie Africa, Socrate Safo is about to resign from his position as the elected Public Relations Officer of the Film Producers Association of Ghana (FIPAG). This information came after Socrate said on Peace FM�s �Entertainment Review� yesterday Thursday August 4, 2011 that he was going to make a big announcement in the coming week. According to a deep throat source at Movie Africa who hinted Peacefmonline, the �Hot Fork� Producer intends to tender in his resignation letter by close of today Friday August 5, 2011. The close source who had a snap pip of Socrate�s resignation letter dated Friday August 5, 2011, at Socrate�s New Town based office, disclosed that Socrate signed and prepared the letter, late yesterday evening, Thursday August 4, to deliver it early Friday morning to President of the Association, Mr. Augustine Abbey popularly known as Idikoko. The source said Socrate cited personal reasons in the letter and stated that he is not happy about certain issues going on in the Association and how it is been run now, as his reasons for resignation even though he didn�t state the specific issues. However, Peacefmonline.com�s investigations at FIPAG have revealed that there is a hot misunderstanding between Socrate and the President Mr. Abbey and the two have not been able to sought out their differences, hence his resignation. We are reliably informed that the main reason among other reasons why Socrate wants to resign is because movie marketers, distributors and retailers at Opera Square and Kantamanto in Accra have threatened to stop selling movies produced by Socrate because according them Socrate is pushing for an increase in the price of movies on the market which they claim will not help their business. Though this is a decision taken by FIPAG as a group, Idikoko went behind them to tell the distributors that he was not part of that decision and came back to FIPAG to tell Socrate and the rest of the executives that they are not being fair to the distributors because he thinks he needs them to sell his movie. According to a source within the Association, Socrate and Mr. Abbey have literary been at each other's throat for some time now over some decisions. Also, Socrate is not too happy about Idokoko�s leadership thus he does not want to be part of his executives.