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Dancehall musician Shatta Wale has revealed one of the reasons why he fumed and stormed out of the meeting with the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare.
The Ghana Police Service on Wednesday held a meeting with stakeholders of the creative arts industry at the National Police Headquarters Cafeteria Conference Room.
While at the conference room, Shatta Wale decided to take out his phone and use but he was quickly stopped by one of the policemen there.
Shatta Wale confronted one of the policemen to ask why he was asked to put aside his phone when his colleagues were using theirs.
Things have calmed down and telling his side of the story as regards circumstances that led to him storming out of the auditorium, Shatta Wale mentioned that a police officer was rude towards him, a situation that left him with no option but to retort.
He told Joy Entertainment that he was discriminated against because although some attendees were allowed to film proceedings, a police officer ordered him to stop taking shots.
He said: “I just saw people taking out their phones and nobody was talking to them so I felt ‘lemme just take my phone’ because Fred Amugi has been one of my greatest actors that I really want to be with, do a movie with. So, when he was talking, I felt what he was saying was so important to me that I had to keep it for myself. I took a video and one of the officers came and was like ‘phones are not allowed but people were taking pictures when I came so I felt like he was a bit rude.”
Shatta Wale further mentioned that he was already not in the best of moods hence the obstruction triggered the anger.
“From where I was even coming from, someone had stolen my hundred bags of cement and some organization had gone on before I got here so tempers were high”, he said.
Meanwhile, Shatta Wale has apologised to the police for his actions.
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