Two Males Get Evicted From The Challenge Season II

Accra, 7th April, 2009--- After successfully participating in the Profiling and Sales Task, Enoch Quaye and William Offei have been evicted from the Challenge House. Though both contestants nominated themselves for eviction, they were evicted on the basis that they performed poorly in the Sales Task and also had low votes from the public. Initially four contestants—Emmanuel Sackey , Akosua Afumaa Gyan, Enoch Quaye and William Offei came up for eviction but two of them were saved by the votes.

Before the eviction, the Faulty members made up of Dr. Paslca Brenya, Dorles Opon Acolatse and Albert Eliason briefed the Board made up of Esther Cobbah, Kwesi Appiah and Emmanuel Dei-Tumi about the two tasks and the general performance of the 12 finalists. The Board took a decision to evict two candidates based on their performance on the Sales Task.

The 12 finalists then meet and interacted with the Board about issues concerning their welfare in the Challenge House and they all shared their varied experience of having to be part of the Challenge.

During the Sales Task, the 12 finalists were put into three groups of four –the CELL, the MERCHANT and the FOCUS groups and they were tasked to sell TIGO phones, Chips and top-up credits at their own desired locations. The first group CELL was made up of Emmanuel Sackey,(leader) Sandra Braimah, Elorm Gyimah and Katherine Attoh and they chose Accra Central. The second group MERCHANTS consisted of William Offei, (leader), Enoch Quaye, Akosua Afumaa Gyan and Araba Abakah-Anaman and their location was the Kaneshie Market. The third group—The FOCUS chose the Legon campus of the University of Ghana and had Dorinda Quarshie, (leader), Micheal Quaye, Anastacia Arko and Joseph Opoku as its members.

As par they plan, the 12 finalists had to come face to face in their Sales Task groups to tell the Board, how they fared. The three groups were tasked to sell 15 phones, 100 chips and Ghc 200 worth of top and go TIGO credits within six hours.

The FOCUS group did not have so much questions from the Board as they were able to sell all their TIGO products and had to even request for more. In all, they sold TIGO products amounting to GH¢ 1200.

When it got to the turn of the CELL, there was much to be said. The leader, Emmanuel Sackey liaised with a Takoradi colleague whose driver was in Accra to buy TIGO products worth Gh¢100 and the group had it tough convincing the Board that it was indeed a genuine sales and whether this particular sale was a secret sale or one known by every member. Elorm quickly said she had no idea about it and that really got Katherine to pick up on her and named Elorm as her nominee for nomination. It was tit for tat when Elorm who now looked pevied nominated Emmanuel Sackey and Katherine Attoh for eviction. Looking at how things were going, Emmanuel Sackey also nominated himself for eviction and said as a leader, he needs to take responsibility for everything that the team does. The CELL group sold TIGO products worth GH¢ 887.

The MERCHANTS had a lot of questionings from the Board because of their poor performance in the SALES TASK. They sold TIGO products worth GH¢ 517 which was the lowest. The Board wondered why the group did not change their location when they realized it was not helping them to sell as much as they wanted. From the questions, it seems as if William mislead them and so did not have much information about the location for the sales. When it was time for nomination for eviction, everyone was reluctant. When they were pushed to the wall, William Offei put himself up for eviction saying “as a leader, I am to be held responsible for the misfortune of the group. I put myself up for eviction”.

THE EVICTION After a short deliberation, four people--Emmanuel Sackey, William Offei, Enoch Quaye and Akosua Afumaa Gyan were put up for eviction. Luck was on the side of Emmanuel Sackey when he received the top most public votes. When the three—William, Afumaa and Enoch were asked to nominate who should go home, Enoch gave himself up, whiles Afumaa nominated William, with William nominating Afumaa. Luck again was on the side of Afumaa when she was saved as a result of her having the second highest public votes.

Ms. Esther A.N Cobbah, one of the judges at this juncture said “its unfortunate Enoch and William you have to leave the Challenge House, because you have been evicted. We wish you all the best in all your endeavours. Good luck next time”.

With their eviction, Enoch and William have missed the opportunity of winning the ultimate prize of a full board postgraduate scholarship from the University of Westminster with a total value of £30,000 or three (3) other scholarships to do post-graduate courses in Thames Valley University, London Metropolitan University and an ICT related post-graduate course at IPMC in Ghana.

‘The Challenge’ will run for the next two months on GTV every Sunday at 3pm with a repeat on Fridays at 11am. The Show will afford the general public the opportunity to participate as studio audience members and also via weekly SMS prize draws and eviction voting. For details of The Challenge, please visit –www.thechallengeghana.com

The Challenge is brought to you by The British Council and TIGO, in association with University of Westminster, London. It is proudly supported by Strategic Communications Africa Limited (Stratcomm Africa), United Bank of Africa Ghana Limited (UBA), London Metropolitan University and Thames Valley University, Nouvelle Gandour (Pharmadem), IPMC, BusinessGhana.com, UKPASS (UKPASS is an online postgraduate programme application service brought to you by UCAS - the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service), First Choice Hair & Beauty Salon, ANTAL International Network, Nallem Clothing, Le Baron, Nelly Black and powered by CharterHouse.

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