Ghanaian Millennium Chef, Ebenezer Smith has rendered an unqualified apology to all the sponsors and Ghanaians he scammed through his staged longest cooking marathon by an individual.
The embattled chef began his Guinness World Record attempt with a cook-a-thon on February 1 and ended on March 6, 2024, cooking an idea for over 820 hours to break the world record set by Ireland’s Chef Alan Fisher.
However, he stated in an interview that it was staged to make money to feed his family and to gain a name for himself.
Chef Smith said he forged a reference number using another Ghanaian who embarked on a speech-a-thon, Adu Safowaah, to seek sponsors and eventually duped his prey.
He confessed this after GWR stated that Chef Smith never applied for any attempt and that his certificate, which he claimed was given to him by GWR, was fake.
GWR then proceeded to take out the cooking marathon from its categories to keep potential contenders from battling to win in that category.
Chef Smith admitted that he never applied and confessed to having played on the intelligence of Ghanaians by organizing a press conference to emerge as a winner.
He also admitted that his key sponsor, Amadia Shopping Centre, spent over GHC 300,000 on him and said he deserved not to live again, as an apology could not make up for all the damages he had caused.
Talking about what motivated his bold step, Chef Smith said he did not know what came over him, but the pressures that were associated with catering for his children and not making money from all the hotels and restaurants he worked for contributed to his decision to embark on the fraudulent journey.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
