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When I was coming up as an MC, I was offered free drinks and women as payment – Kojo Manuel
Ghanaian Master of Ceremony (MC) and radio personality, Nyantakyi Kusi Emmanuel, popularly known as Kojo Manuel, has recently stirred up controversy by shedding light on a disturbing practice within the event industry.
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His comment comes on the back of an admonition by Ghanaian disc jockey and event host, Merqury Quaye to event organisers to pay MCs better.
In a candid interview with Kwame Dadzie on Joy FM’s Twitter Spaces, Manuel disclosed that some event organizers pay or compensate MCs not with monetary payments, but with drinks and the company of women.
He further added that some media houses also do business with clients and pay them with airtime.
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“This is strictly business, unless you are telling me that you are giving me something that I value in return for it, no two ways, it is an agreement but you don’t call me and tell me that i have ten bottles for you,” he opined.
The MC, made it known that this usually happens to most MCs who work more on the party side of the spectrum.
According to him, “When I was coming up some of the things that I was offered to be paid with was my name being on the artwork alone. That was somebody’s way of trying to pay me. Because nobody knew me and they were putting my name on the artwork. They would say ‘oh when you come in you will get free drinks. When you come in, I will introduce you to girls’,”
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