In the past week or two, the Media landscape in Ghana has once more been awash with the Okomfo Kwadee saga, this time with a tantalizing twist in which the troubled musician’s Mother stormed the offices of OM studios in Accra and engaged everyone present in both physical and verbal confrontation resulting in a studio employee’s clothes being shredded off him!
Jerry Anaba’s (Kwadee’s real name) mum’s issue was simple: LEAVE MY SON ALONE! Over the years, Kwadee had been checked into both conventional and church-oriented rehab undergoing treatment and counselling for a mental disorder (quoted in some media outlets as schizophrenia brought about by abuse of narcotics; presumably weed) and just when he appears to be recovering nicely, the ‘scavengers’ in the entertainment/music business emerge again to lure him into the very activity that pushed the talented Kumasi-based rapper into the black hole of drugs and substance abuse.
“JJ” as Kwadee’s mother fondly calls him has not realized a penny- or more appropriately a pesewa from his efforts /talents since venturing into music. Meanwhile those purported to be managing him always make a killing each time he was put on stage, she alleged.
Kwadee has rather been be-deviled by the whole experience. Therefore, she believes it’s time her son moves on and will be better off doing something else.
The entire episode of the treated addict’s mother visiting her fury on staff of OM studios was captured on tape; so this is no mere allegation. She has continued to grant interviews on radio stations pleading with the powers that be in Ghana entertainment to stop tempting her son into this fuzzy music affair.
