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We spent about GH₵6 million on this year's 3Music Awards - Sadiq Abdulai

Sadiq Abdulai Abu, CEO of 3Media Network, the organizers of 3Music Awards, has disclosed that the 2021 show has cost his company about GH₵6 million.
Sadiq Abdulai
Sadiq Abdulai

Speaking on Joy Prime about what went into last weekend's awards show that got fans talking, Sadiq said “we’ve had close to about 1000 people working on this project. One thousand people who were directly impacted by this".

According to him, the cost of the various performances shot on different sets including the opening performance by Medikal, Joey B and Criss Waddle and the Osibisa tribute by KiDi, Mr Drew and Kofi Jamar totalled about ¢300,000.

Explaining some of the things that shot the expenditure up, he noted "for the Yaw Tog and Kofi Jamar performance, the extras on the Yaw Tog part alone were about 30 boys. Come to the Kweku Flick part, the extras were about 5, not forgetting the people that were producing it".

"Take a look at the tribute performance, there were about 50 extras, all different people, everybody got paid, we never repeated the extras,” myjoyonline.com quoted Sadiq to have added.

Asked to tell the amount spent on the awards show that saw KiDi winning Artiste of The Year, Sadiq said "as for the money, if you want to quantify it, this is about 6 million cedis project".

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