Nkonkonsa Celebrity Gossip From Africa
Dancehall and Afrobeat artist Shatta Wale has called out the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Mark Okraku Mantey for being a blockage to him.
According to Shatta Wale, Mark Okraku Mantey is one of the gatekeepers who tried to sabotage his music career as he blocked him several times from succeeding in the music industry.
“…..musicians have been poor in Ghana ooo, we have seen musicians that have come and gone and come and gone, we always try to talk to them like this and they don’t even say their feelings. me, my heart is worrying me, I want to get money…
“Do you know when Mark Okraku-Mantey started blocking me? Started saying that I won’t make it, I won’t get anywhere in my life…?” Shatta Wale quizzed.
During a live radio interview on Hitz FM, Shatta Wale claimed Mark Okraku once made an attempt to destroy his career.
Mark Okraku-Mantey, who was then the programmes manager at Hitz, allegedly declared the station will manufacture its own hero to compete with Shatta Wale after he admitted on live radio that he declined to accept an invitation to an interview on the radio.
“Mark Okraku-Mantey is the problem of this whole music thing, they are deciding. When he was Programmes Manager at Hitz FM, he said on the radio that because they were calling Shatta Wale for an interview and Shatta Wale didn’t come, so, they decided to create their own hero which was Stonebwoy…,” Shatta Wale alleged.
