Controversial Ghanaian musician, Shatta Wale has rubbished the lifting of the ban placed on him and ‘rival’ Stonebwoy by the Vodafone Ghana Music Award (VGMA) Board last year.
Below is an interview on the lifting of the ban:
Shatta Wale was speaking in an interview with Kwesi Aboagye on the Entertainment Review Show on Peace FM in Ghana’s capital, Accra.
According to Shatta Wale, he has not had any message from the VGMA Board and only saw the announcement in the social media.
“This is what I have always been talking about, this Charter House people think they can always take Ghanaian artistes for granted. We agree that their business is helping the industry, but you don’t also make it look as though the industry players don’t matter. You ban me and if you are now lifting the ban, they should have some courtesy to tell us. I don’t know about Stonebwoy, but I have not had any letter from them. We are not small artistes that you expect that we will see in the social media that the ban has been lifted and I will be happy. I am a big brand, I have an office, a secretariat with staff; we have not received any letter.”
According to Shatta, the organizers of the VGMA should stop thinking and believing as though he and stonebwoy need their award or platform to succeed.
“The best way was to calls us and tell us that the board is lifting the ban they placed on us. Then we will also give them some terms to compensate us for the humiliation we went through. I am a businessman and even thinking of having a share in the VGMA and you are there thinking you can always have your way.
This award that doesn’t bring any money; I have not even had a pen, I had to spend time in a cell all because of this awards thing.”
It will be recalled that Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy were banned indefinitely from the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards after a fight on stage that marred the award event 2019.
Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy were then stripped of the awards they won at the 2019 edition and were both asked to return the plaques. As a result of the altercation on that night, the VGMA Artiste of the year was not announced for fear of worse things happening.
With the lifting of the ban, it is not clear if Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy will be legible to participate in this year’s award, which covers works done in 2020.
Source: A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Ghana
