Miss Ghana organisers attack ‘malicious, vicious’ allegations
Giuseppina Barfi (left) Inna Patti (middle) and winner of 2012 pageant, Naa Okailey Shooter. |
Exclusive Events Ghana, organisers of the Miss Ghana beauty pageant,
has refuted allegations by former winners of the national contest that
various acts of abuse and humiliation characterised the event.
Some former winners had singled out the head of Exclusive Events
Ghana, Inna Mariam Patty, as the main cause of the disturbing and
dehumanising experiences they had to go through.
For instance, the winner of Miss Ghana 2010, Stephanie Karikari,
revealed that Inna Mariam Patti refused to put her on a billboard
because her appearance did not please her senses.
According to her, the organiser declined to project her with the
explanation that “sponsors had told her that I was not beautiful enough
to be on the billboard.”
Inna Mariam Patty |
Also, Guiseppina Nana Akua Baafi (Miss Ghana 2013) and Antoinette Delali
Kemavor (Miss Ghana 2015) said there were attempts to make them sleep
with influential men in order to meet their task of raising funds for
the organisers.
However, in a strongly worded statement, law firm, Akufo-Addo,
Prempeh & Co, acting on behalf of Exclusive Events Ghana, described
the allegations as baseless and malicious and cautioned the public and
the media from escalating the allegations against the Miss Ghana
organisers.
“Clearly, these allegations are coming from disgruntled ladies who,
after having had the opportunity to use our clients’ platform to project
their image, have turned round in such an undignified manner to
denigrate the very platform they had amply benefited from,” the
statement said.
The law firm has threatened to bring legal action against persons or
organisations who propagate the allegations by the former beauty queens
against their client.
Read the full statement below.
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