{"id":338144,"date":"2017-07-20T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=338144"},"modified":"2017-07-20T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:47:21","slug":"we-dont-owe-chief-moomen-anything-gh60-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/we-dont-owe-chief-moomen-anything-gh60-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t owe Chief Moomen anything \u2013 GH@60 Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems embattled playwright and poet, Chief Moomen will not receive any pesewa from the Ghana@60 Committee after he received GH100, 000 prior organizing his Wogbe Jeke concert during Ghana\u2019s diamond celebration in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News <\/strong>on Thursday, Chairman of the Committee, Ken Amankwah said Mr. Moomen was even lucky to have received half payment for the concert because his budget was not approved.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nw3WZgr5SgGHD05157QPTXFSrWGf88xv&#8221;]\u201cEvery event organizer that we have had to do something for us we have to have him or her to sign a contract with us. Moomen never came to sign a contract. Now he is going round saying that we owe him, we don\u2019t owe him anything because we never promised to pay him the amount he demanded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeft with me alone he wouldn\u2019t receive a penny or pesewa from the committee,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Moomen had claimed that all efforts to retrieve the remaining GHc100, 000 he charged the Ghana@60 committee for the concert have <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/02\/chief-moomen-decries-attack-from-ghana60-chair-over-debt\/\"><strong>proved futile<\/strong><\/a><\/span> despite several persistence.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Amankwah who earlier said Chief Moomen\u2019s budget was too high added that his committee had <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/06\/chief-moomen-had-no-formal-contract-with-us-ghana60-cttee\/\"><strong>no formal agreement<\/strong><\/a><\/span> with the playwright.<\/p>\n<p>He said the event sub-committee chairman, Lord Commey, who gave Chief Moomen the part payment was even sacked after they realized what he did.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_334391\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334391\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-334391\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/chief-moomen-5.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Moomen\" width=\"470\" height=\"330\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Moomen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat was out of order. I don\u2019t know was he [Moomen] told him [Lord Commey] and he was paid this amount. I told you I reprimanded him [Commey] because he had no right to pay this amount to Chief Moomen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amankwa he also disclosed that the Wogbe Jeke team was sponsored by Key Soap hence there was no need charging the Ghana@60 Committee that huge amount for the concert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief Moomen was being sponsored by Key Soap so what he needed from us was a mere top up. If you are receiving sponsorship from somewhere, they pay all your budgetary allocation. So if you come to us, it\u2019s just a top up. So if a corporate body asks you to submit account for them and you can\u2019t bring that account then you start making excuses that because somebody didn\u2019t pay you that\u2019s why you couldn\u2019t carry the programme. That is a very bad characterization,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chief Moomen who earlier told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> he had a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/07\/i-had-verbal-agreement-with-ghana60-cttee-chief-moomen\/\"><strong>verbal agreement<\/strong><\/a><\/span> with the committee vowed to run to the court to have his money paid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems embattled playwright and poet, Chief Moomen will not receive any pesewa from the Ghana@60 Committee after he received GH100, 000 prior organizing his Wogbe Jeke concert during Ghana\u2019s diamond celebration in March 2017. 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