Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale seems to be fed up with the recent turn of events and as such has demanded that the elderly people in society should respect the youth and allow them to live their lives.
Shatta Wale was speaking on the heels of him being treated like a rascal just because of how he dresses and how he was manhandled during a meeting with the IGP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare.
According to Shatta Wale, he has properties, pays school fees, and helps some orphanage homes which are all good causes and these show that he is a decent and very responsible person. According to him, the fact that he dresses in an informal manner gives people the impression that he is a rascal. However that isn’t the case, he disclosed. He intimated that, especially the elderly in society, must desist from having such primitive thinking.
Shatta Wale also admonished elders to respect the younger ones because things aren’t the same anymore. He noted that the youth should be left alone and allowed to live their lives because times have changed. He suggested that technology is fast-growing, therefore, there are some things that the older folks won’t understand.
Addressing the issue of how he dresses, Shatta Wale emphasized that he is a musician and it is just a lifestyle for people in such industry to dress as he does. He noted that besides it being a lifestyle, he can’t live a lie by wearing very formal clothes since it makes him uncomfortable.
Shatta Wale, was on Wednesday Morning, November 10, 2021 made to apologize to the IGP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, for disrupting an ongoing meeting with players in the creative industry.
The singer is reported to have rudely interrupted the meeting immediately he walked into the auditorium with his industry colleague, Stonebwoy. The ‘Melissa’ singer was dragged out of the meeting by some police officers after he yelled at the Police boss over the seizure of his phone.
It is unknown what might have triggered his action, but according to sources, Shatta Wale was heard shouting, “what do you mean? You think I can’t take my phone?”
According to a source, it took the intervention of musician A Plus, Bulldog, and others who called for calm heads. They pleaded on Shatta Wale’s behalf to COP Nathan Kofi Boakye not to escalate the matter. The musician was asked to join the meeting later.
Shatta Wale after lamenting over what a police officer did to him went on his knees to plead with Inspector Kofi Boakye, the source intimated.
Meanwhile, according to another source, Shatta Wale shouldn’t be entirely blamed for what transpired since Shatta Wale was absent from an initial meeting where the industry players who met the IGP were instructed not to record the meeting proceedings.
This stems from the IGP, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, calling for a meeting with the creative arts industry to engage them on how they can collaborate to work together.
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