The Chief Executive Officer of Radio and Television Personality (RTP) Awards, Prince Mackay, has disclosed that media presenter and cum musician Blakk Rasta only downplayed the credibility of the RTP after his request to be inducted into the hall of fame category of the awards scheme was rejected.
It could be recalled that Blakk Rasta issued a statement announcing his non-participation in the awards scheme again, stressing further that he also returned plaques of all voting-related awards, which he considered “award-buying” and “non-credible,” which included that of the RTP awards.
Against this backdrop, Mackay explained that Black Rasta only became a bitter critic of the awards scheme after he realized his fame and relevance in the industry were dwindling.
“It’s all bad blood when people realize that they are no longer getting the fame, and so they begin to tarnish it,” he said.
The CEO of RTP revealed this during an exclusive conversation with Mr. Koda on Max Drive in Accra on Friday.
He said Black Rasta has won the awards for five years and never did he criticize the awards scheme until other media personalities began winning at his expense.
Mackay observed that Black Rasta visited the North to show his awards, which he won from the RTP to the renowned Mallams and Imams of his hometown, and praised the awards scheme until he began losing to others.
“And even behind the scenes, he called me severally to see how best the scheme could induct him into the hall of fame of the awards category, where I said no: You have not reached there yet,” he stated.
That, Mackay said, led Black Rasta to become the bad blood of the awards and accused several celebrities, including Delay, of buying her awards.
Getting the records straight, Mackay said Delay has only won one time from the awards scheme, which was 2023, the 14th edition of the awards after gaining nominations since 2021.
He therefore challenged media personalities who won from the RTP to open up if they paid for their awards.
Talking about the credibility and transparency of the scheme, he said the public had 60 percent say through voting and the board only had 40 percent say.
After that, the collation of the results was done by an audit firm devoid of the awards board’s interference.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
