Dr. UN has explained why he awarded Rapper Sarkodie with a water bottle, an award that attracted ridicule from the public when it was later found out that it had no affiliation with the United Nations as advertised.
In an interview on the Delay Show which was monitored by The Chronicle, Dr Kwame Fordjour, popularly known as DR. UN said his award is to award Ghanaian trailblazers for their exceptional works in their various fields.
“When you hold a water, it’s a shining star, water is life all your followers, the population that follows you, you are holding their life, that is the meaning of that,” Dr UN told Delay in the interview.
Asked why he gave ace broadcaster, Nathaniel Attoh, a horse, he replied “so when will Ghana grow?” He continued that “awards that we are giving, you that you are not the architect of the award, you want to show us what we should give to you? Then don’t come.”
He awarded Sarkodie, Berla Mundi, D-Black, and Nathaniel Attoh among others with fake awards and plaques made of different totems. The Ghanaian rapper who was suited to the event as a dapper proudly received an empty water bottle as his ‘UN Award’.
Later it was discovered that the award scheme is not associated with the UN and was a ceremony organized by Kwame Fordjour without the consent of the international body. However, the DR UN continues to defend the credibility of his awards scheme.
“I have organized about 10 awards. I am like Ghana don’t learn and they keep talking trash about dignified people. Sarkodie himself who received the flask, ask him how I got him at the event” DR. UN defended the credibility of his award.
