Actress and film producer Joselyn Dumas walked into a media interview to promote a movie and walked straight into congratulations for a government job she has never held.
The host praised Dumas as a woman in leadership in President John Dramani Mahama's administration during the interview reported on Monday, November 9. She rejected his congratulations for becoming Deputy Director of Diaspora Affairs.
"No, I'm not the deputy director. I work as an actress and a producer," Dumas said, before the host asked whether she had resigned.
She has not resigned because there was never an appointment letter to begin with. When the host pointed to a congratulatory flyer bearing her photograph that had been shared online, Dumas asked where it came from, noting nothing of the sort was on her own social media pages.
"I don't work with the Diaspora Office. I'm a producer, I'm an actress, and I'm here to promote my movie," she added.
That phantom flyer first surfaced in March 2025 during a real wave of creative-sector appointments that sent Kofi Okyere-Darko (KOD) to head the Diaspora Affairs Office at the Presidency and placed Kafui Danku at the National Film Authority alongside deputy James Gardiner.
Even though Government Communications Minister Felix Kwakye Ofosu publicly debunked the Dumas claim at the time while confirming the other creative arts appointees, a well-cropped graphic on WhatsApp travels much faster than an official correction.
Still, Dumas—who has had to bat away social media impersonation and hacks before—told the host that women do not need a state title or a Jubilee House lanyard to lead younger people through their everyday work.
"My life is an example of, you know, you can still be in the limelight and still give back and do things for people. And that's leadership," she said.
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