Chief Moomen In Limbo as Ghana@60 Chairman refuses Cash balance

Ghana’a celebrated Poet and Playwright , Chief Moomen, owner of WogbeJeke show is likely to file a lawsuit against the Ghana@60 committee for failing to pay the balance from the amount he charged prior to the Ghana@60 program. His claim was as a result of the Chairman of the Ghana@60 , Ken Amankwah committee who refused to pay the balance of GHc100,000.

Citifmonline revealed that an amount of GHc100,000 was initially paged to Chief Moomen. The chairman who also mentioned that there was no signed contract with Chief Moomen. Surprisingly an amount of GHc100, 000 was payed to him without approval by the Committee. “Does it mean Chief Moomen charged the committee GHc200, 000 for the show without any proper procedure? Should Commey take the fall for the Chairman? Was there any form of oral contract or promise?

The Chairman of the Ken Amankwah added that the Poet was paid GHc100,000 by the subcommittee chairman Lord Commey who was later reprimanded and sacked. Mr. Amankwa also claimed that the show was sponsored by keysoap. But the question is, did the Ghana@60 team seek the sponsorship from Keysoap for the show? Did they play any role in getting other sponsors for the show?

Meanwhile, an amount of GHS 5.26 million was released from the Ministry of Finance for the Ghana@60 anniversary which included GHS3.1 million from government of Ghana sources of funding and GHS2.16 million from the District Assembly Common Fund.

Perhaps the GHS100,000 cash that was paid to Chief Moomen came from the GHS 3million of the amount allocated to the office of the Chief of Staff at the Ghana at 60 secretariats? The composition of the funds as highlighted by citifmonline was: “GH¢5.26 million, GH¢ 3 million went to the office of the Chief of Staff at the Ghana at 60 secretariats while GH¢100,000 and GH¢2.1 million went to the 100 regional coordinating councils and 216 district assemblies respectively”.

WogbeJeke is a Heritage Theatre Series with the second play which uncovered the struggle of independence of Ghana in the outlooks of founders Osagyefo Dr.Kwame Nkrumah and J . B Danquah.