{"id":1212258,"date":"2022-09-28T07:29:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/i-was-paid-in-full-amount-gyakie-exposes-global-citizen-organizers-free-show-claim\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T07:29:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:29:13","slug":"i-was-paid-in-full-amount-gyakie-exposes-global-citizen-organizers-free-show-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/i-was-paid-in-full-amount-gyakie-exposes-global-citizen-organizers-free-show-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"I was paid in full amount \u2013 Gyakie expos\u00e9s Global Citizen organizers&#8217; free show claim \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The songbird Gyakie has disputed an earlier declaration by Global Citizen Festival organizers that no performers were paid to play on the night.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>According to Gyakie, she got paid in full with everyone engaged in her skill on that day.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Global Citizens Festival was a charity event, Big Ideas Consult\u2019s chief executive said on Monday that no performer was paid for being there.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gyakie informed Giovani on the 3FM Drive on Tuesday that the organizers satisfied all monetary conditions required for her to go on the stage.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, everybody that was on the stage was obviously paid. The dancers, the choristers, the band. Everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0How can you organize a show without Shatta Wale \u2013 Akuapem Poloo questions Organizers of the Global Citizens Festival<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>In response to her fee, Gyakie continued, \u201cYes. (full amount?) Absolutely. Every single person was paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her comment disproves the widely shared claim made by Big Ideas\u2019 Kojo Poku that the show\u2019s focus is on altruism.<\/p>\n<p>Kojo Poku claims that none of the performers that day got compensated for their time on stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/Ci7dF0kvqsK\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; The songbird Gyakie has disputed an earlier declaration by Global Citizen Festival organizers that no performers were paid to play on the night. According to Gyakie, she got paid in full with everyone engaged in her skill on that day. Since the Global Citizens Festival was a charity event, Big Ideas Consult\u2019s chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9955,11179,2051,3477,2756,1068,6128,10921,9543,199,2210],"class_list":["post-1212258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amount","tag-citizen","tag-claim","tag-exposes","tag-free","tag-full","tag-global","tag-gyakie","tag-organizers","tag-paid","tag-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212258","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=1212258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}