Gloria Sarfo Slams Organisers of AMAA for “Embarrassment”
Ghanaian actress Gloria Sarfo has taken on organisers of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) for deceiving them with a pseudo “all-expense paid trip” invitation to Nigeria for the event.
According to the Efiewura Star, she got bounced alongside some of Ghana’s bigwigs in the movie industry at the airport after finding out their names were not on the flight list to Nigeria contrary to communication from the organisers.
In a rant on social media on Sunday, two days after the incident which left them “embarrassed” and “stranded” for hours, she expressed her disappointment saying she sacrificed a lot to make it to the event only to face this ordeal.
She named Pascal Amanfo, Abdul Salam Mumuni, Akorfa Adjeani, and Julia Appiah among prominent producers who faced the same ordeal on November 1 at the airport.
To the best of her knowledge, this is not the first time such an incident has happened with AMAA and demanded answers to it.
“You don’t tell me you are inviting me with an all-expense paid trip and then I am stranded at the airport. It doesn’t work that way… The embarrassment. We stood at the airport for hours…It was embarrassing. Why would they do that?”
“People changed their monies in dollars and naira…I want to know, AMA Awards is 20 years. What is happening? Who is responsible? I think you should be ready to do what you do… You just don’t invite people to an event and you embarrass them like this. Totally embarrassed. Who does that?”
She also took offence at the organisers’ failure to reach out to them and apologise after the incident and called on her fellows in the industry to join in condemning it.
“If we don’t talk about these things in Ghana, If Ghanaians don’t come together to talk about these things, we will be walked on. They will walk on us all the time. We need to talk.. I wanted to keep quiet like everyone else but then I was like if I don’t talk who will? And these things will go on… I am still waiting for an apology letter. Up until now, no apology and no communication whatsoever.”
Meanwhile, the Awards event took place on November 2, 2024.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
