{"id":110187,"date":"2023-10-13T12:32:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/13\/taabea-gma-uk-2023-alordia-confirms-80000-fee-to-shatta-wale\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T12:32:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:32:23","slug":"taabea-gma-uk-2023-alordia-confirms-80000-fee-to-shatta-wale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/13\/taabea-gma-uk-2023-alordia-confirms-80000-fee-to-shatta-wale\/","title":{"rendered":"Taabea GMA UK 2023: Alordia confirms \u00a380,000 fee to Shatta Wale\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chief Executive Officer of the Taabea Ghana  Awards UK, Eric Nii Tetteh, popularly known as Alordia, has confirmed that he paid Shatta Wale \u00a380,000 as performance fee for this year\u2019s award ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He made this confirmation while speaking to Kwame Dadzie on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s Twitter (X) Spaces <\/strong>show dubbed \u2018Joy Entertainment Unpacked\u2019 on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked if Shatta Wale named the correct amount of money he paid him, Alordia answered in the affirmative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe mentioned it. Yes, he mentioned it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The amount raised a lot of hackles as some doubted the organisers could afford it. This comes after Shatta Wale, while celebrating his win at the event, made an announcement of how much he was paid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alordia on the show indicated that apart from Taabea, his scheme had a lot of sponsors that made it easier for them to afford a fees as high as \u00a380,000 for their artistes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=445&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkwamedadzie%2Fvideos%2F702225441809872%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have been in this game for two decades. Do you think if I am not making gains I would still do that job? Do you know how many times I come to Ghana in a year? Does he pay my ticket for me,\u201d he said while reacting to claims by Peace FM presenter Kwasi Aboagye that the organisers could not afford \u00a380,000 as performance fee to Shatta Wale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLook at the number of sponsors I have. And look at the venue. You saw how the venue was packed? I got about 6 solid sponsors and I had a sponsor for every category because of what we are doing for the past 6 years. People living in the UK know what I have done for the industry and they know what I am still doing,\u201d Alordia further noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2023 Taabea Ghana  Awards was held at the Royal Regency in London on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shatta Wale emerged winner of the overall Artiste of the Year category.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ghana  Awards UK, founded 6 years ago is a platform for Ghanaians in the United Kingdom to celebrate Ghanaian musicians both in Ghanaian and in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n                               <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n                <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                         \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive Officer of the Taabea Ghana Awards UK, Eric Nii Tetteh, popularly known as Alordia, has confirmed that he paid Shatta Wale \u00a380,000 as performance fee for this year\u2019s award ceremony.\u00a0 He made this confirmation while speaking to Kwame Dadzie on Joy FM\u2019s Twitter (X) Spaces show dubbed \u2018Joy Entertainment Unpacked\u2019 on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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