Sensational Nigerian music maestro, Burna Boy‘s and manager, Bose Ogulu, has disclosed that Burna wasn’t given N10 million as promised by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in March.
Dickson101 recalls that at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards which held on Sunday, 14th March, 2021, Burna Boy took home the Grammy Award for ‘Best Global Music Album’ with his 2020 project ‘Twice as Tall’.
At a homecoming reception in Port Harcourt organised in his honour by Wike on Saturday, March 27, 2021, the governor announced cash rewards for all the artistes who performed on the night–including Burna Boy.
“All of you that have come today and the Niger Delta people that have come to play today to show the talent you have, I’m very proud of you. All of you will go home with N10 million each,” Gov. Nyesom Wike announced, to loud cheers from an appreciative audience and an adlib from Burna Boy.
Nevertheless, Burna Boy’s mum, told TV presenter Ebuka Obi-Uchendu on his Rubbin’ Minds show that her son wasn’t given any N10 million.
In her words..
“The first thing was that money wasn’t paid, by the way. It was paid to everyone else but him. Everyone else who came to perform was paid, but him, because they were honoring him. He wasn’t being paid to be there.
“It is only a bastard, my people say, that refuses honor in his father’s house,” Ogulu says.
“I didn’t pay too much attention to it, to be honest. I was too busy. But the facts are very clear: this man was honored because he got the highest award in his field in the world.
“He was honored because he brought that award home. Why did he get that award? Making the same music that speaks the truth. So, I don’t think anybody was trying to buy him to their side or not.
“I think it is very clear to everyone that the man would always make the music he wants to make, whether it is for fun or didactics…whatever…he would continue to do that.
“It wasn’t a deal. It wasn’t a case of let’s honour you but you will not abuse us again o. That didn’t come into the conversation.
“It was very wise that it was done. I was particularly impressed because if any other state had done it before Rivers, it would have been shocking.”
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