Exclusive: Event promoter finally speaks after allegations they swindled reggae artists Richie Spice, Etana and Luciano over 5 million
One of the biggest concerts to happen this year went down at KICC last Saturday, 18th March 2017 consisting of reggae artists Richie Spice, Etana and Luciano.
Dubbed Dobbafest, it brought together all reggae fanatics for a great night of good inspirational music and some good vibes.
With MC’s for the night being Mbusi and Lion Deh, the place filled up to capacity with Kenyan celebrities showing up in droves.
Having looked at a few pictures and sampled a couple of more videos, the event looked like quite the success.
Up until Monday, when a certain Facebook blogger, Fredrick Mirikau came out to claim that the reggae artists had been swindled millions by the event promoter. Apparently Richie Spice was supposed to be paid 4.5 million but ended up being paid 2.5 million.
Etana on the other hand was scheduled to be paid 2.5 million but was paid 1.2 million. As for Luciano, his take home was supposed to be 3.5 million but he ended up paid 1.5 million.
In total, he alleged the promoter swindled the Jamaican artists 5.2 million.
This is the post he made:
Well, we reached out to the event company handling the event, Brand Afrika and everything in the post was pure lies. “How would they have performed if they weren’t paid?” Their representative asked when I called to confirm the story.
And as to whether, those were the figures that were meant to be paid…she had apparently forgotten…pffft, paleeze…
Anyway, straight from the horse’s mouth, WATU WALILIPWA!
