Ghana’s foremost event management company Charterhouse Productions organisers of the prestigious Ghana Music Awards, have apologized to Rapper Sarkodie for using his name without his permission in a VMGA ad as one of the performers on the upcoming awards night set for Saturday April 11.
The company have released a press statement apologizing to the “Illuminati” Rapper after he took to social media over the weekend to tell the world how he felt about what he described as disrespect and cheating on the part of Charterhouse.
Peeved Sarkodie took to twitter on Easter Monday April 6 2015 to take a swipe at the Ghana Music Awards organisers. He tweeted;
“Charter house always trying to play smart on Us smh”
“Everyone benefiting off entertaining but the entertainers”
The BET Award winner continued his social media rant today with countless tweets, registering his displeasure on how Charterhouse is using his name illegally to “deceive” his fans and make money with his name.
In a swift responds, Charterhouse have accepted their mistake and taken responsibly for what seems like an issue of miscommunication or an avoidable error on their part.
Read the unedited statement from Charterhouse below:
The management of Charterhouse expressly apologises for a Vodafone Ghana Music Awards radio commercial that has aired on YFM announcing Sarkodie as one of the performing artistes on the night.
We would like to expressly state that Sarkodie IS NOT performing at the 16TH VODAFONE GHANA MUSIC AWARDS.
Prior to this, we had been communicating and had met with a member of his management team trying to arrive at a favourable figure. In anticipation of that figure coupled with the unstable power situation in the country plus the long Easter weekend ahead of us, where it would be almost impossible to get a studio to record, we worked ahead and recorded different versions of the 16th VGMA’s final event radio commercial. One with Sarkodie’s name and another without. With our fingers crossed, the ads were all submitted to our media manager.
Unfortunately, we were unable to come to a favourable agreement and parted ways amicably. Our media manager was immediately informed on Thursday evening to send out only the ad that DID NOT HAVE Sarkodie’s name. This, she did except for YFM, where she sent the wrong ad which had Sarkodie’s name. Clearly, it was an error from our end which we have totally admitted.
We hereby unreservedly apologise to Sarkodie, his management friends and fans as well.
Measures have been taken to ensure this does not happen again.
FOR CHARTERHOUSE GHANA
George Quaye
MEDIA
Source: Peacefmonline.com
