RE: Chris Brown to earn $1 million for GH Show …KSM unhappy
Soon as reports started going round about how much money Chris Brown is going to be- paid to perform at the Hope City Concert, the social media in Ghana has gone haywire. The multiple Grammy award-winner, is purported to be collecting a whopping $1 million to perform in Ghana on the 5th of March. So that’s the big deal. He’s to perform and hour and half (or so) and will walk away with a million dollar so most people on the social networks are expressing their displeasure because they believe that amount could solve most of our problems or at least could be invested in our local talents.
The seriousness of the matter is that, most of our senior entertainers like K.S.M are against the payment and apparently share same view. He wrote in twitter today “wished they had invested money in developing local talent: But, it’s THEIR MONEY and they are free to decide how to waste it!”
We can agree that, its approach has some social good aside the business but we need to keep in mind that the main aim of the concert is to cut sod for construction of a new cluster ICT Park with a vertical city composed by towers which will eventually provide jobs for 50,000 people and accommodation to 25,000 inhabitants. Now this is huge and these explain the huge investment in publicity and efforts to attract investments for the project. Is it worth it? Yes it would take that much effort for such investment to be established and we as Ghanaians must be glad that it is happening in our time.
In any case, we need to analyze what Chris Brown performance will bring to our industry and country. Am sure a lot of potential tourists who might be uncertain about visiting Ghana because of the many reports on the recent held elections or anything like that will have a reason to visit without panic. Chris Brown just performed here so, hey it’s cool to come over, right?
My view is that, rLG is not the government of Ghana and just like many companies who invest huge sums of cash in their business and social responsibility initiatives so are they also free to take actions deem profitable for their company. Kudos rLG and good lock with Hope City.