Actor Mikki Osei Berko who is popularly known as Dada Boat has opened up on how badly he was treated while working with the Multimedia Group Limited.
He noted that working with Adom FM for the short period was “bad” to the extent that got him “depressed” although it was one of the reasons he decided to come back to Ghana.
He worked with Adom FM which is part of the Multimedia Group for four months and got “sacked”.
“Adom FM is one of the reasons that motivated me to come back to Ghana. Multimedia interviewed me while I was in the UK to employ me on Adom FM.”
When the presenter asked him why he left, he said: “they sacked me”. Asked if his work was not impressive enough, he replied, “I don’t know.”
“People described it as a sack but I had a situation with the programmes manager there. Prior to my coming, they interviewed me via skype, asking what will I do differently when I join them and I told them: All my radio life, I’ve not had a production team and looking at where I have gotten to in the media career, production is very key. Very important to the success of every programme. So I knew if I had a production team, my delivery would be better than it used to be,” narrated.
“But when I came, there wasn’t even a skeleton talkless of the cupboard. There was no production team. I got myself two guys to help me with production. Even to get transportation for them was becoming a problem.”
He added that the late Fennec Okyere and other friends helped him to get a team together to help with the production.
He further recounted that he had his own content at the time but the programmes director had issues with his natural voice.
He said, he was asked to add touches to his voice but since it was a live show, he had no idea how to fix that and that it attracted a misunderstanding and query letter.
“When I came, I started something similar to ‘Kokonsa’ called ‘Yaw Guy’ and I was talking just like this. Can you believe that the programmes director at the time told me to go and change my voice to sound just like ‘Kokonsa’? I asked how can I do that? He told me to enter the studio. I was doing a live show what then do I do to it in the studio? Can you believe that he gave me a query letter about why I didn’t change the voice?” he quizzed.
Touching on the issue of the “sack”, he said the director reported him to the management team and while at the meeting, he made certain comments that were “lies”, for that Mikki tried correcting him and was asked to withdraw his statement which he did.
He was then told to go off air for a week and the contract was terminated in the period.
The actor was out of the country, stayed in the UK for seven years and had to return because of his mother, work at Adom FM and the feeling to just come back home because he did not plan to desert Ghana.
Watch the full interview below:
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By: Hajia Lamy Gates |ghanaweekend.com
