{"id":1211982,"date":"2022-09-27T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/i-worked-as-a-security-guard-for-3-months-to-raise-money-for-guda-video-kirani-ayat\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:23:40","slug":"i-worked-as-a-security-guard-for-3-months-to-raise-money-for-guda-video-kirani-ayat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/i-worked-as-a-security-guard-for-3-months-to-raise-money-for-guda-video-kirani-ayat\/","title":{"rendered":"I worked as a security guard for 3 months to raise money for &#8216;Guda&#8217; video &#8211; Kirani Ayat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ayat5-1024x1024.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Musician Kirani Ayat has revealed that he spent months raising money to shoot the music video for his son \u2018Guda\u2019 which went viral in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Twitter, the \u2018Sarki\u2019 rapper revealed that he worked as a security guard for months in his bid to earn money and create one of the best videos promoting tourism in the Northern part of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked 7 days a week from 7 pm to 7 am for 3 months straight as a security guard just to save up to make this \u201cGUDA\u201d video possible. Various awards shows snubbed it, the ministry ignored it, and I reached out a couple of times to no avail. I was depressed throughout that period,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"pMVa8BS_SrQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kirani Ayat - GUDA (Official Video) Directed. David Nicol-sey\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pMVa8BS_SrQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Kirani Ayat made this revelation after a video shared on President Akufo-Addo\u2019s social media handles promoting tourism used footage from the \u2018Guda\u2019 music video.<\/p>\n<p>The two-minute video featured different scenes from different parts of the country and a voice-over by the President encouraging tourism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beneath the deep blue sky, the Black Star is calling. Follow the stars and let them take you on a journey of our people. I invite everyone to the country at the centre of the world \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ghana?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Ghana<\/a> \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VisitGhana2022?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VisitGhana2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2m5KC2QTkt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/2m5KC2QTkt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo\/status\/1574689088053149696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The musician who was not pleased stated that his content was used without his consent neither was he compensated for it.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that in 2018 he actively reached out to the Tourism Ministry to push for the \u2018Guda\u2019 visuals to be used to promote the North but they did not reply to his calls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president of Ghana has used my video \u201cGUDA\u201d in this ad to promote Ghana. I was actively reaching out to the Ministry of Tourism in 2018\/19 to use this video to push tourism in the North and got NO reply, yet today it\u2019s in an ad and no one reached out to me for permission,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The president of Ghana has used my video \u201cGUDA\u201d in this ad to promote Ghana. I was actively reaching out to the Ministry of Tourism in 2018\/19 to use this video to push tourism in the North and got NO reply, yet today it\u2019s in an ad and no one reached out to me for permission. \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/vLnAP0bRqf<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kirani Ayat \ud83c\udf0d (@KiraniAYAT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KiraniAYAT\/status\/1574701602153414656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kirani Ayat added that \u201cwhoever worked on this video should\u2019ve reached out to the rightful content owners before proceeding. I spent my all in making GUDA possible, I\u2019m sure you were paid for this job, where is my cut?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the director David Nicol-Sey also on Twitter stated that creatives deserve to get paid for their content especially when they had no help from anyone when making their content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreatives struggle to create content with their last dime with zero support from @NAkufoAddo and @MOTACGhana. Did your team reach out to the content owners for authorisation before using @KiraniAYAT\u2019s GUDA and @FuseODG\u2019s African girl in promoting your \u201cvisit ghana\u201d campaign?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Creatives struggle to create content with their last dime with zero support from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAkufoAddo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NAkufoAddo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOTACGhana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MOTACGhana<\/a>. Did your team reach out to the content owners for authorisation before using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KiraniAYAT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KiraniAYAT<\/a>\u2018s GUDA and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FuseODG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FuseODG<\/a>\u2018s African girl in promoting your \u201cvisit ghana\u201d campaign? https:\/\/t.co\/dCxDhI29b3<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DAVID NICOL-SEY \u2122 (@Davidnicolsey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Davidnicolsey\/status\/1574700672817463296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He added that they would take the Ministry on for intellectual property theft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A clear case of intellectual property infringement. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KiraniAYAT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KiraniAYAT<\/a> and I are taking this case on. https:\/\/t.co\/dCxDhI1Blv<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DAVID NICOL-SEY \u2122 (@Davidnicolsey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Davidnicolsey\/status\/1574774637518635009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I directed both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FuseODG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FuseODG<\/a> African girls and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KiraniAYAT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KiraniAYAT<\/a> Guda in 2018. https:\/\/t.co\/dCxDhI1Blv<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DAVID NICOL-SEY \u2122 (@Davidnicolsey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Davidnicolsey\/status\/1574776100927987720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/i-worked-as-a-security-guard-for-3-months-to-raise-money-for-guda-video-kirani-ayat\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Kirani Ayat has revealed that he spent months raising money to shoot the music video for his son \u2018Guda\u2019 which went viral in 2018. In a post on Twitter, the \u2018Sarki\u2019 rapper revealed that he worked as a security guard for months in his bid to earn money and create one of the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25825,9964,26399,25826,383,1705,423,2177,480,8533],"class_list":{"0":"post-1211982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ayat","9":"tag-guard","10":"tag-guda","11":"tag-kirani","12":"tag-money","13":"tag-months","14":"tag-raise","15":"tag-security","16":"tag-video","17":"tag-worked"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}