Following the viral video of Nigerian video director Sire Choppenson, who asserted that Shatta Wale owes him money for over 13 videos he shot, Sammy Flex, the manager of the Dancehall musician, has debunked his claims, describing him as greedy.
He revealed that Sire Choppenson split with the team and later joined them to be Shatta Wale’s videographer, only for him to be extorting money from them.
Sammy Flex, in a YouTube video, narrated that everything was working well until the Tamale concert, when issues allegedly began when Sire Choppenson started to extort money from him even after being paid for a video shoot upon their return to Accra.
“I gave him money to acquire equipment for the ‘Killa Ji Mi’ video shoot, after which I would give him the rest, which he did. After the shoot, anytime I ask about when the video is going to be ready, he wants to blackmail me for equipment funds that had already been paid to him,” Sammy Flex explained.
Sammy Flex further claimed that the videographer ceased communication with him and secretly approached Shatta Wale for additional payment.
“He stopped responding to me. He even threatened to withhold Shatta Wale’s videos unless we paid him more money for the equipment. I urged another team member to contact him, but he ignored calls and messages. Later, I discovered he had directly approached Shatta Wale. Shatta Wale called me and informed me of Choppenson’s grievances,” he added.
“When he thought he was going to blackmail me or backstab me, he didn’t know that Shatta knew who he was, so he was willing to listen to his lies and nonsense,” he continued.
Sammy Flex explained that Sire Choppenson was making an unnecessary demand and had refused to release Shatta Wale’s three videos in his possession.
“When we gave him a card to copy the videos for me because the files were zipped files, we thought he was copying the real thing for us, not knowing he was just copying some of the things we did here in Accra. The real thing that I was looking for was about three videos; he did not give me them; he kept them,” he added.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
