Veteran highlife artiste, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley will get into much bigger trouble if he does not quickly apologise and retract his statement against Okyeame Kwame and others.
The latest artiste who is threatening to sue Ambolley is veteran musician, Ben Brako.
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley a few days ago said on 3FM he has evidence that former president of Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) Bice Osei Kuffour (Obour) gave Okyeame Kwame, Ben Brako and other friends of his GHS 50,000 each from the GHS 2m fiscal budget money which was given to the union by the government in 2012.
“All these are on paper. They are all there. When the time comes, let them come and challenge me and everything will come out,” the failed MUSIGA presidential candidate stated.
Okyeame Kwame, through his lawyers, asked the artiste to apologise within 72-hours or face the full extent of the law. However, the artiste says he should be given a week rather since the 72-hours ultimatum is not enough.
Veteran highlife musician Ben Brako in an ‘alleged’ email to GhanaWeb, is said to have vehemently denied ever taking such money from MUSIGA and expressed utmost disappointment in his colleague for making unfounded allegations.
According to him, Ambolley has “behaved despicably by publicly accusing some of his fellow musicians, and specifically, me, without a shred of evidence, as there is absolutely no truth to his assertion that Obuor gave me 50,000 Ghana cedis from Musigha funds.”
Mr. Brako has therefore asked Ambolley to retract his statement with an unreserved apology.
“Otherwise, I reserve the right to sue him and label him a fool. Only a fool and idiot will make such a serious allegation without evidence,” he stated.
“The music industry in Ghana is in enough trouble without some of the senior musicians displaying their ignorance, immaturity and idiocy in the glare of the public,” Ben Brako concluded.
