I have always said in my writings that, if Kiki Banson was chopping down Becca, I careless because he has shaped the girl’s talent and has given her the recognition that many crave for in a struggling industry…
Few days ago, Flex Newspaper reported that Becca’s father-Mr. Acheampong has disowned Becca because the latter intents to marry her manager-Kiki Banson…(CLICK HERE TO READ THE STORY).
In the report, Becca’s father dished out a lot on Becca and her relationship with Kiki Banson.
In response to Becca’s father-Mr. Acheampong, Kiki Banson, CEO of EKB Records and manager of Becca has written a lengthy letter stating his side of issues.
Personally, I do not think this letter was necessary or would do any good to the situation and I did not see it coming…Who would benefit in the long run-gossip blogs and tabloids like GhanaCelebrities.Com would…LOL
As Becca’s father mentioned certain things we were not privy to, Kiki Banson has also removed the veil on many interesting things…
And GhanaCelebrities.Com has a copy of Kiki Banson’s letter below so just get a cup of tea and enjoy the read…Then let’s know what you think
November 8, 2012
Dear Mr. Acheampong,
For months now, I have heard and seen reports of your words in newspapers and online regarding your daughter, Becca, and myself. From the respect I have for my elders and for Becca’s welfare, I have kept quiet. But after the latest report, I find that I have held my peace long enough. It is time to speak the truth.
I met your daughter Becca six years ago, in August 2006, at a place that was known then as the Office, now Rockstone’s Office. It was Reggie Rockstone himself who introduced us, at the place he would later own. At the time Becca was 22 years old and signed a contract with me when she was 23 under the supervision of qualified lawyers. Not 17 as you have recently claimed in your public statements. She had recently returned from the UK, where she had been living for some ten years. Before that first meeting in 2006, I had no idea Becca even existed, a fact, which Reggie can attest to.
At that time, I had been looking for talent to work with, but had not yet found one who impressed me. Becca, I immediately recognized, was different. I was struck not only by her talent but also by her determination to succeed. It was a drive that was missing in other talented artists I had seen. So I got to know Becca as a friend and sister over the next several months.
After many years of her in London and at such a young age, Becca did not yet have a full understanding of the system here. She was, furthermore, young and naïve about her surroundings. I worried that because of her naturally kind and open nature, she would fall victim to people with bad intentions and vices.
Though Becca was and remains a very independent and private person, it became clear to me that she was not living a comfortable life. I could tell she was going through some very hard times inwardly and outwardly and to be honest very vulnerable like any girl of her age in her situation would be. And I could also see that she needed some kind of parental presence: guidance and guardianship that she was obviously missing but she was yearning for due to her obedient nature.
So with all this in mind, I offered her my room in my own house. My couch in my living room became my bed during the three months that my brother, who had been living in my spare bedroom, completed his house, after which she stayed in my spare room. I made sure she never went hungry. I made sure she always had clothes on her back. I made sure she always had a safe place to stay while we worked together to develop her God-given talent. Becca at this point had become family and I found necessary to make sure she was ok.
I thank God that my parents – the late Mr. and Mrs. Banson – brought me up well. May their souls rest in peace. Due to my upbringing, I deemed it right as a respectful and responsible Ghanaian adult that I look for the parents of the 22-year-old girl whose career I wanted to develop and converse with them. Legally she was old enough to make a decision herself, but I believe that before law, there is culture.
During the nearly 2 years that Becca lived in my house, on an almost daily basis, I asked her: where you were? I found it strange that such a bright girl with so much potential didn’t seem to have the interest or support of her parents. So, finally, I was able to convince Becca to show me where you lived so that I could call on you.
I came to your house one fine Sunday afternoon, unannounced, and I introduced myself to you in the presence of your wife and some of your children. You received me very well and thanked me for keeping your daughter safe. You asked me whether Becca had told me how harsh you could be. I said that she had, but that I had told her that it was important that I spoke with you. She had laughed, I told you, about the fact that I was even brave enough to enter your house unannounced. I stayed for a little while and I left on a very good note.
For a brief time, the relationship between you and your daughter improved tremendously, to my great joy. You even used to come to where I was living then to visit her. When my company EKB Records, outdoored Becca at the Golden Tulip Hotel in November 2007, you attended and seemed to be very happy with her progress in life. The same with her children’s Ball two years later at the state house hence surprised I am, at you claiming not to know the whereabouts of your daughter to the media.
So far as I was concerned, you and I had a very cordial relationship. I ensured that Becca went back to school and got some more formal education in addition to her certificate in childcare. She enrolled at GIMPA and took a degree course in project management for three years, which she recently graduated from with a first class honors. A situation that I know you don’t know about. I tried to instill independence in her to the best of my ability because it had become clear to me that she had no one but God to depend on. There were countless times, though, when the going got tough for her. At my advice, she sought your help, despite her misgivings. Nothing ever came out of it.
On one occasion a year and a half ago, she asked you for 500 USD to make up her differences in school fees. You refused, she told me. I found this very difficult to understand, and for the first time I thought Becca must be lying to me. Because to you, 500 USD as I know, is a drop in the ocean. You once told me while you were raining insults on me on the phone with pride that your holdings in Accra property alone were worth 60 million USD, a figure I don’t doubt.
So, I picked up the phone myself and I called you. Like a son to a father, I told you that finances that month where Becca was concerned was not good, and I asked you for a loan to help with Becca’s fees, which I would pay back. You said to me that you had some very important things you were doing: you were going to buy paint for one of your buildings.
Throughout her three years at GIMPA in school and the years before that when I knew her, you made no contributions to her development either in money or shelter or any other way. But she was determined. And with the help of people who saw in her a great woman, she was able to sail through school practically on her own.
Since the school fees incident, everything you have said about me has been negative and lies. I cannot know your thoughts at this time, but if I offended you by that incident I am sorry. I was only trying to help Becca. I am not in competition with you I just lent a hand to someone who needed it. I am also not asking you or anyone else to thank me, that is for God. But I beg of you don’t spread lies about me.
Last year during Christmas, I sent you a text wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. You replied with insults and told me never to call you, send you texts or go near any property that you owned. A situation I just laughed off.
Three months ago I got a call from you. As soon as I picked up the line, you started insulting me. You said you had heard that I am going to marry your daughter. For about ten minutes, I didn’t utter a word as you harangued me. You threatened to kill me and all the other members of my family. Mr. Acheampong, I have a recording of that call on my phone.
I mentioned my parents earlier on. They taught me well. One of the things they taught me is that if you want to get married to a woman you go to the family. You bring your families together. That is the basis of our society: It is ridiculous for you to believe that someone as intelligent as Becca would ignore this to get married in a secret ceremony. In a marriage in our society, what is there to hide? Mr Acheampong if It is God’s wish that I wish to marry Becca at any point in time you will be the first to know and in the proper manner as our culture and laws demand.
It surprises me also that have you have said that I want “to become popular” and therefore am trying to marry your daughter. At the time I met Becca, though my own name was well known, even my neighbors didn’t know who she was. All I saw was potential that needed guidance. And I believe that Becca’s potential is just beginning to be realized. I saw in her then what people see now.
Mr. Acheampong, you don’t seem to realize that you are being used. You are being fed with lies meant to enrage you and incite you to react in anger. The intent of these people is to use your temperament to get you to say hurtful things that will induce me to give up and bow out of Becca’s life. So they can have access to her for their own selfish interest. That I can assure you will not happen. Sadly, the key architects of these lies are two people whose names I would withhold for now but not for long. Just to tickle you imagination one of them is very close to you and lives in the UK and the other who you may not know lives here in Ghana and shamefully orchestrates the spreading of these lies.
Publicly, you pride yourself in your daughter’s success. But she has earned that success by her own abilities through a long, hard struggle, and with the help – not of you – but of those who believed in her and did what they could for her along the way. She has been able to succeed so well without help from you. The only thing she ever received from you in her quest to succeed has been discouragement. I would have thought that as a father, you would have wanted to support such a daughter. Instead, you seem to want to destroy what she built, in five years of sleepless nights, alone.
As God works through mysterious ways, I believe I’m being used by him to for Becca. I have never asked anybody in this world to give me a trophy or an award. I am just doing what I love to do. And I am just being there for my best friend. I am not claiming to be an angel or to have had a perfect working relationship and friendship with your daughter. But I would never embarrass, hurt or disgrace Becca in such a manner and I have always had her welfare at heart. Your libelous words cannot stop me. The only thing that can stop me is God.
I have been very patient because my primary concern is for Becca. But one thing you must remember is that your freedom and your rights end where someone else’s begins. You have hurled insults at my family and myself in the press – people you’ve never met in your life and you know nothing about but they have maintained civility like I said my parents did a very good job.
There are certain things that you have said and done over the years that I will not write in this letter, because I do not know where this letter might end up taking history into consideration, because they may hurt Becca’s feelings. But I am highly disappointed, I advise you to retract the untruths that have already hurt so deeply myself, my family and so deeply your biological daughter Becca. And I advise you in the future to carefully consider your words because you are really hurting your daughter who has done no wrong to you.
Sincerely,
Kiki Banson
if dis is very 2ru den both benson and the fada r stupid. Hw can sam1 leave with u 4 two yrs be4 going to her perants if nt stupidity n the father is the devil of his own self. The title 4 this drama is (THE BENSON’S SACRIFICE)
@suallah, LOL @ “the benson’s sacrifice”
Very well of your help to Becca and kiki Banson also spoke in your letter.
Kiki Banson spoke well in his letter,
@adwoa agyeman, oh no! It did him more harm than good. .?
@adwoa agyeman, U think he did?Reading this letter looks like watching akan drama.It doesnt make sense and too much lies and twists in there.My onloy problem is the way Becca;s image will be tarnished after this whole issue.
interesting read but these questions that would have settled things remained unanswered;
1. Are you going out with Becca
2. Do you intend to marry her
3. Was she present when you got married?
4. What happened to your marriage?
5. Did your wife divorice you because you were having affair with Becca?
@Linda,just what i was looking out for.
@Linda, BAAAAAM!!!!! loooooooooool i swear i was looking for all these in this letter but never found it loool.
@Linda,
3bob)ba. Ns3m no d)))so. There’s always a different side of a story, now who is telling the truth. And who will Becca defend?
In my own opinion, Kiki is as guilty as charged………….otherwise, why the need for this letter?
hmmm, time will tell…………..
hmmmmmmmm….nsem pii.. damn!!! speechless
i know right lol…was waiting to read that part
EIIII ASEMS3B3 PAAAA NIE! WHO SHOULD WE BELIEVE NOW.? KIKI OR MR ACHEAMPONG.? SOME OF OUR FATHERS…………. HMMMMMM, THIS IS À VERY PREVAILING ISSUE IN OUR SOCIETY, SOME OF THEM NEGLECT THIER CHILDREN AND WHEN THEIR CHILDREN GO THROUGH THICK AND THING TO SUCEED, THEY POINT THIER FISTS TO THIER CHEST AND SAY “” THAT’S MY CHILD””
KWAW KESE SANG IN ONE OF HIS SONGS…… “” ME MABRE MABO HO KA NA OBI DI BEK) DE3 OY3 NONESENSE”” THE SONG ON KIKI’S LIPS NOW. LOL
@KA NE WU, LMAAOOOOO ur silly.. but for real,if becca needed $500 a year ago for school fees,then what is this whoole music career about?? because a yr and hlf ago,becca was too famous and had an album that did well. So where the money at??lol i would rather look for my american dream,maybe one day it will happen..aaaaba!!
i second to Linda Question Kiki Banson you skiped those questions illustrated by Linda which is what Mr Acheampong is dying off. Any justification ….lol
There’s always two sides to a story, Ayooo” Linda, I’m sure even u have issues at home. Luckily for u u are not sooo important so, no one really cares. But, let he who is without sin be the first to cast a stone. Today it is someone, tomorrow it might be you so, in whatever u do, just watch your back.
I am 51 years old and the reason why I came to this site was because my daughters went to Wesley girls with Becca and I had the opportunity to meet her before she became who she is. That young lady is very respectful and minds her business from what I gathered. I’m sure it not easy for her at all as the lady she is so, pls when u making such comments thake it easy. Listen my father once said ” today it’s meooo, tomorrow it might be you” so when someone has a problem know that it is only by grace. Becca and Kiki, take heart. It will all end soon. Father, I’m sure u regret your statement right now so, next rime have patience. Becc we all love u, I see a great woman I’m you and that’s what u are so, push harder.
I am 51 years old and the reason why I came to this site was because my daughters went to Wesley girls with Becca and I had the opportunity to meet her before she became who she is. That young lady is very respectful and minds her business from what I gathered. I’m sure it not easy for her at all as the lady she is so, pls when u making such comments thake it easy. Listen my father once said ” today it’s meooo, tomorrow it might be you” so when someone has a problem know that it is only by grace. Becca and Kiki, take heart. It will all end soon. Father, I’m sure u regret your statement right now so, next time have patience. Becc we all love u, I see a great woman I’m you and that’s what u are so, push harder.
Becca, I pity you. I don’t eny you at all. This ur work no bi easy. But! We dey for u. Anyways this years girls talk concert, I go comeoooo! Me I will fight with you when u tell us again no men aloud.
Chewww! i never thought this letter will end….wow! But Banson, i dont think becca father have a problem you managing her, but the fact that you wants you to marry her is his problem. If i could remember properly ” He kept saying to leave his daughter alone and you can only marry her over his dead body”.
Do tou have any Intensions of marrying Becca?
Becca crap or not, we still love u, don’t mind anyone. No one can bring you down no matter what!
nsem wo world ooo. We have not heard a quarter of it yet and I know more will come out. I am just going to hang around here and enjoy as these people wash their dirtiness in public
JUST LEAVE BECCA AND KIKI ALONE!!!! WTF
What i want know is when he took her to his hse to help her give her a place to stay was he married at the time? If all that hes saying is true then becca ‘s dad need to shut up, cos obviously he wasnt there for his daughter when she needed him, what exactly was going on btwn father n daughter that made her not live with her parents? Also he wasnt straight about him wanting to marry her, are they engaged to be married or not, he makes it sound like its just a rumor, theres no denying the fact that he helped her lot but if he left his wife to be with her, then thats not right. I wonder if his ex is one of the people he accuses of spreading these lies?
Kiki is a big liar…. No father will let their children out of their sight just for a week.if Mr.Acheampong did not love his daughter he wouldn’t has sent her to UK to go and have a better life there. No father will ever deprive their own biological child of shelter and Kiki did u ask Becca Wat she did in other for her father to treat her harshly. Obviously Mr.Acheampong is a rich man and he does not need Beccas money but it hurts him somebody is taking advantage of her child that is why he made statements about it publicly.
I don’t believe this at all and why do I have a feeling that GC had this a long time ago and waited so long to posted
The beginning of the letter seems sketchy, cos most of us know Becca was suppose to be part of tv3 mentor 2 but tht didn’t happen, so was she back from London at tht time or ??? Plus, from wht i heard Becca dropped out from Mentor due to some issues with tv3 and her dad, was tht after she reconciled with him or before???
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE OR WHOM TO BELIEVE. ALL I KNOW IS THAT ONCE A PERSON DECIDES TO BECOME A PUBLIC FIGURE OR CELEBRITY THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF HAVING THEIR PRIVACY. EVERYTHING THEY DO IS SUBJECTED TO SCRUTINY AND THEREFORE BECOMES PUBLIC, HENCE WHY THIS STORY IS IN THE MEDIA. ANY OTHER PERSON THAT IS GOING THROUGH THIS SAME SITUATION WILL NOT HAVE THEIR BUSINESS IN THE MEDIA LIKE THIS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT CELEBRITIES AND THAT IS WHY I DONT FEEL SORRY FOR ANYBODY IN THIS WHOLE BLOW-UP BECAUSE IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY OF BEING A CELEBRITY.
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THINK THAT THE LATTER PARAGRAPHS IN THE LETTER IS A BIG F.U.C.K YOU TO BECCA’S FATHER. ITS LIKE KIKI IS SAYING THAT “I AM F.U.C.K.I.N.G YOUR DAUGHTER AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT”. THATS JUST WRONG. ALTHOUGH HE IS NOT REALLY STATING THAT, A KEEN PERSON CAN TELL FROM WHAT HE WOTE.
kiki we hear you ooooo.ns3m akese3 3bobo BA.am with all ears to listen
hmmmmmmmm all i can say is that God is in controle.
@maame, hmmn and He definitely knows who’s telling the truth. this isnt fair on Becca’s side @ all its soo embarrassing. why would a family matter be out like this huh??
Hmmmmm at least KIKI tried his best too… the oldman shld be patients.. i think his daughter loves dis man… he should give them a chance… we are in 20th centery…. i dont fink becca his soo dumb… she knows wat his good for her.. n besides she is 28… mmm
@Rocklyn Love,patients? Relax oo
@Gabidinho,lol what else can i say”’
I think the man depidnt want becca to o into music and becca went against his wishes and pursued music which made him resent becca and stood supporting her, I think he later came round to liking the idea of be a doing music when Kiki steps up o come to the house but later withdrew his affection after getting closer o kiwis wife and then hearing becca causing trouble in the marriage of Kiki (the affair) and the person who Kiki referring to as the one in the uk is kiwis ex wife
@Gabidinho, i dnt know whether ur computer keeps freezing or ur brains are working faster than ur hands?? wat r u talking abut?? with dem o, kiwis depidnt etc.
@dericka, hahahahahahahahhaa……………
@Gabidinho!!!!! Hahahahahahaha so funny how fast u were to point out RocklynLove’s little mistake but have refused to see the whole bunch of mistakes in yours.”depidnt”paaaaa? U too relax oooo.hahahahahahaaaa.My ribs oooo.
@Jas, hahahahaha exactly rite, i read his comment 3x buh still it aint rite.
@Dericka! Yes such is life.its amazing how quick we humans are to point out others little mistakes but fails miserably to see our own big bunch of mistakes.who in this world doesn’t make mistakes by the way if i may ask? Hmmmmm.
Yes folks its the keypad,those annoying automatic speller on iPhone thing,always in a hurry to spell things for u,lol
@Gabidinho, so next time check yourself first. hahahahahahahaha………..
This is the correct statement folks: lol:i think the man didn’t want becca to get into music and becca went against his wishes and pursued music which made him resent becca and stopped supporting her, I think he later came round to liking the idea of becca doing music when Kiki stepped up and came to the house but later withdrew his affection after getting closer to kikis wife and then hearing becca causing trouble in the marriage (the affair) and the person who Kiki referring to as the one in the uk is kikis ex wife
I was broke about a year ago n Becca gave me 2000 dollars, the Becca I know is not broke at all so from what I gather this was a test, and I’m sorry to say her father failed. Becca is the mostbkind hearted person ever. I’m in thebindustry and ive been around all these top so called actresses and believe me, in times when I needed a hand they let me down. It is so unfortunate becca,I’m really sorry.
@WTF, so you want to be around people so that they can help you right? Why don’t you also sing or act and stop being around “the so called actresses”. Akate capital letters.
Listen Beccas father is a very harsh man. I know him. Mr Acheampong has to learn some parenting skills quick. I know some of his children and omg! They all have had issues like this with the man. Guys do ur search well! This man is being greedy and selfish. If he has an issue with Kiki why not call the guy and talk to him, why mess your daughter up. You guys are not thinking. No father and u repeat no father that is thinking about her childs well fair will under any circumstance say such things. What happened to family matters! Solve it at home.
Gabidinho hahahahahahahaaaa.anyway u made my day.hahahahaaaaa
I think Linda’s questions need to be answered secondly if she needed money for fees just 500$ are u guys saying she did not have? how much does her dressing cost per show? if she was in london for 10 yrs when did she want to take part in Mentor and all that.When she was leaving with Kiki where was his family? This case looks more complicated then we see it
Kiki dey chop d girl……..peroid! Lets not waste precious time on them.
look after reading this kiki or watever he calls himself disgust me.look we are africans where was kiki when her father was taking care from nursery to wesley then to london ,was it kiki who took becca to stay in london .kiki also said when he saw becca she was naive n u dont want anyone to take advantage of her .let me ask u , are u her father?.u are talking nonsense .wat he is sayin is that u are sleeping with his daughter in the name of helping her.he says doesnt like it leave her alone, for father n daughter to reunite.u also said becca ask her father 500 dollars n he refuse why wont he refuse ,becca is living u, u have taken the role of a father n husband .u think the father is a fool while he knows u keeping sleeping with his daughter then u want him to keep paying her fees right while she continue to live under roof.why is that after u met becca”s dads u didnt ask her to go back home n u still kept her in house.who are are u fooling.
@ann, I wonder kraaa but wat he refuse to add was tat he sleeps wit de lady in question n tat he bought stuffs 4 engagement n de old man rejected it,but come to think of it I taught he’s married?????????? Kiki u of all pple…
i agree with Ann, it is assummed that if u are living with a man , ur total responsibility is the man’s( or for both of u).
therefore Kiki did not expect the father to pay for Becca’s fees. Again Kiki shd have giving Becca’s father some respect by avoiding texting him but rather seeing him personnally and probably present him with some gift- it shows respect. that is what ppl living with other ppl’s daughters do( sleeping with them)- no one shd tell me Kiki is not sleeping with her- checking the letter again, its there.
Kiki
just avoid dragging the Becca’s name in the mud further, it will help.
Men of today!!! I am sooo ashamed of Ghanaian men these days, where is our culture. It looks as though Becca’s dad is very strict and wanted the best for his daughter but she also wanted her freedom and her passion was to go into music. Having problems with the TV3 and mentor was because the father didnt want the daughter to go after her dreams. Becca’s dream is to be a musician and her father thinks otherwise but Kiki took advantage of Becca’s frustration as well as her passion and talent, chopping the girl whilst managing her and/or helping her in a way. @Gabidinho statement is right. They are now in love, Kiki is taking very good care of Becca, he rented the executive hostel for Becca when she was in GIMPA, Becca at a point left him and went for a guy in GIMPA I am sure that was when she needed the money because Kiki was taking very good care of her but since she was broke, she had no choice but to reconcile with Kiki. If Kiki left his wife because of Becca, that is bad. Becca, know that most of the time parents know what is best for their kids. Kiki, you should JUST manage this Becca girl and leave her love/personal life alone.
@sophia, n wat’s soo damn annoyin is tat dey keep lying abt tis whole datin tin mean while dey re sexing emself lol
hehehehehe funny enough did kiki claim becca had lived in the Uk 10 years before he met her in 2006? and that she was not aware of her surroundings ? what a big lie becca was born and bred in Ghana she finished morning star 2000 cos she was my junior and her brother was ma mate ,and finished Wesley girls 2003 lets say even if she left right in 2003 after gey hey aint that 9 years ago . so from 2006 when he met her in Ghana when she came is that not 3 years meaning 2006-2003 equals 3 years so where from the 10 years in uk i beg make us think wai
i fink Becca should kam out and speak oooo……
i think in the letter, fiifi is confirming the rumor on the fact that he is secretly dating becca and i quote ‘ i am not claiming to be and angel or have had a perfect working relationship or friendship with your daughter” if so, then we shd rest our cases, he admits “being” with her. its a shame but i now agree when the say ” no man does anything for free” we all have our selfish interest in every investment we make.
Yeah, it’s just what I need, I’m about to have a new one