Singer Danny Quest says criticisms against CEO of Charger Limited over delays in ward of prizes to winners at the 2024 Happy Man Bitters Upper East Music Awards were unwarranted and unfair.
The sixth edition of the award, which considered artistes’ work in 2024 for recognition, was held on January 11, 2025.
Ahead of the event, Emmanuel Bortey Borketey, CEO of Charger Limited, which produces Happy Man Bitters, announced various prizes for winners of various categories.
Months after the award ceremony, some industry players started raising concerns about what they said were delays in presenting prizes to winners.
They demanded answers for the delay, with some calling out the organizers and the headline sponsor for dragging their feet in fulfilling their pledges.
The company eventually handed out the prizes to the winners but pulled out of the scheme temporarily and also cancelled a ceremony meant to formally present the prizes to the awardees.
In an interview on Work Stretch on Dreamz FM, Danny Quest, who won Male Vocalist at the last edition of the awards, argued that the criticisms against the main sponsor and its CEO were unfair.
For him, such concerns and criticisms should have been directed solely at the organizers of the awards and not the sponsors.
“Charger Limited is just sponsoring a program, not owning the program. When we are going at the sponsor, it doesn’t make sense,” he stated.
“If it’s left on to the event organizer itself, I’m sure they can’t give us anything or the amount the sponsor has been giving us. He’s doing well. What are we giving him (CEO of Charger Limited)If not just market his brand?”
