{"id":330040,"date":"2017-06-20T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=330040"},"modified":"2017-06-20T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:52:10","slug":"ill-apologise-to-krobos-on-behalf-of-sarkodie-okraku-mante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/ill-apologise-to-krobos-on-behalf-of-sarkodie-okraku-mante\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll apologise to Krobos on behalf of Sarkodie \u2013 Okraku Mante"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mante, has expressed his willingness to lead a delegation to apologise to the Krobo community on behalf of Sarkodie, Citi Showbiz<\/strong> has learnt.<\/p>\n

Speaking to KMJ on Hitz FM on Tuesday, June 20, 2017, Mark Okraku Mante said he was ready to meet the Krobo elders on behalf of Sarkodie for his lyrics on a Krobo woman in \u2018Jennifer Lomotey,\u2019 a song owned by Kurl Songx.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of the office I occupy, I should have an interest in the issue because Sarkodie is a creative person and the issue came out of a creative piece. Even though we encourage creativity, psychologically this can affect other creative artistes because subsequently they may find it difficult to mention other tribes in their songs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is good this is coming out. Society develops out of conflicts. So it is about finding solutions. Between now and Friday I am making an effort to meet the Krobos,\u201d Mark noted.<\/p>\n

He said listening to the song, he did not think Sarkodie had any intent to mock Krobo women but as society if you step on somebody\u2019s toes and they say they don\u2019t like it, it is prudent to apologise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not also think that if your neighbour wrongs you, you run to court. For me as a mediator, I am not going to take sides. What I am going to do is to make sure creativity and culture co-exist,\u201d he intimated.<\/p>\n

In the song \u2018Jennifer Lomotey,\u2019 Sarkodie raps: \u201cKr\u0254b\u0254 nii baa papa a ahwene\u025b da ne sisi. \u0186k\u0254mfo An\u0254kye de adwaman no ab\u0254 ne dua,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> which literary means \u201ca good Krobo woman with beads around her waist. She\u2019s been cursed by Okomfor Anokye with promiscuity.\u201d<\/p>\n

This did not go down well with the Krobos because to them it is denigrating to their women. A myth has it that Okomfo Anokye was once bathing by a riverside when some Krobo girls peeped at his nakedness. He then cursed them and generations of the Krobo women that they would be promiscuous.<\/p>\n

When the issue broke, the Paramount Chief of Manya Krobo, Nene Sakite II condemned it and requested that Sarkodie apologised and retracted the song. A Krobo Youth group, Kloma Hengme also issued a statement and later through their legal counsel, served the management of Kurl Songx and Sarkodie a letter of their intent to sue.<\/p>\n

In the letter, they requested among other things, that the song be edited, Sarkodie apologises to the Krobos and pay an amount of GHc. 2,000,000 (Two million Ghana cedis). They gave the Kurl Songx and his team a week to satisfy the requests or face a law suit.<\/p>\n

Mark Okraku Mante\u2019s wish to apologise to the Krobos in Sarkodie\u2019s stead comes few days after it was reported that ace musicians Nana Kwame Ampadu had also said on Kessben FM that he was also ready to apologise on their behalf.<\/p>\n

He said the youth of today do not take cognizance of the impact of the words they choose for their songs and urged them to savour their lyrics.<\/p>\n

However, the Public Relations Officer of Kurl Songx\u2019s management (Blaq Standard Management), Arnold Asamoah Baidoo, has said his team sees nothing wrong with Sarkodie\u2019s lyrics and that they are unperturbed by Kloma Hengme\u2019s intent to sue them.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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