Musician
cum dancer Akosua Agyapong has come under public flak for hopping from
one radio station to another insisting that she will stop afro-eclectic
singer Efya from smoking.
Efya recently confirmed her cigarette
smoking status to the Ghanaian media and Akosua Agyapong shortly after,
also went public that she would stop Efya from smoking because the
latter was her ‘small girl’. Interestingly, when the issue was raised on
Peace FM’s Entertainment Review last Saturday and Akosua was put on the
spot, it came to light that she and Efya were not that close and had
actually met only twice. Akosua after going public on Efya’s smoking
issue, said she was yet to speak to Efya over the matter and did not
even have her contact number, let alone book an appointment with her.
Persons
who called in criticized Akosua for the way she went about the
sensitive issue, insisting she should have handled it on the quiet if
indeed she meant well for Efya. Social network sites including facebook
and twitter have since then become a platform for discussing the issue
as some called on Akosua to first talk to her sister, Stephanie Benson,
to dress more ‘decently’ and act as a role model before advising Efya to
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Radio guests on the Entertainment
Review programme including Whitney Boakye-Mensah, events planner and
showbiz observer, anti-piracy crusader Carlos Sakyi, all expressed
dismay at the approach taken by Akosua and suggested she should have
handled the issue behind closed doors.
While Carlos put on
record that he was against smoking and drug use, he said it was a
sensitive issue which could have a negative response if not handled
tactfully. Whitney on her part described as unnecessary the entire
statement Akosua put in the public domain. Whitney rationalized that if
Akosua was indeed playing a motherly or a big sister role to help Efya
stop smoking cigarette, then she could have gone about it a more mature
way rather than using the media platform.
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