Dancehall King Shatta Wale has said he was given 30,000 dollars as performance fee for the just ended CAF Awards without signing a contract.
The massive crowd who gathered at the International Conference Centre were disappointed when they realized the self-acclaimed dancehall did not appear on stage to perform.
Explaining why he didn’t perform at the CAF Awards, Charles Nii Armah, popularly known as Shatta Wale said he believes the amount he took was black market job an individual wanted to perform in order to also get a share of the total cash the Confederation of African Football budgeted for him.
Wale continued that the person who booked him for the show failed to present a contract when his management requested for it and that was when he realized that the person was trying to dupe him because the music body does not operate in that manner.
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The outspoken musician made it clear that he will not refund the $30,000 he collected to organisers of the show even though he did not show up on stage to perform.
“I don’t have a contract with CAF. Nobody had contacted me. Two days to the event, then someone contacted me that CAF is offering $30,000. I have worked with CAF before and I know they don’t do things like that. Some of us should be very careful in this country. We are killing ourselves. I need to be paid well. This is my home. I have taken the money and nobody can take it from me because I didn’t sign any contract with anybody. I don’t know why somebody can just go and collect $30,000, come and give it to me and tell me to go and perform while I’ve not seen my contract.
“When they (CAF) wanted me in Nigeria last year, they wrote emails two months to the event before we were able to seal a deal. We had a schedule. Here in Ghana, two days to the event, someone will call me and say he has $30,000, rush and come meet my manager. As a smart man, I’ll save the $30,000 first and that’s what I did. I then asked them to go and bring the contract to show who agreed that I take such an amount for a show of that nature. So disrespectful!
In an interview with Accra-based radio station Zylofon FM, Shatta Wale added that his manager convinced him to go perform but what annoyed him was the fact that he was not allowed to do sound-check.
“We were told we can’t have our sound check because they had closed. Meanwhile, the Nigerian acts had been allowed to do theirs. I drove my car and came back home. I don’t like nonsense!†he fumed again.
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At the Awards, Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohammed Salah has won the African Footballer of the Year Award for 2017.
The Egyptian beat off competition from his Liverpool teammate and Senegalese striker Sadio Mane who came 2nd and Gabon and Borussia Dortmund's Pierre Emerick Aubameyang who was 3rd.
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