Why I threatened Amakye Dede – Journalist explains

Broadcast journalist Alhaji Sulley, who has been in the news for allegedly threatening the life of High Life legendary Daniel Amakye Dede has finally broken his silence.

According to a Daily Guide publication on August 10, Amakye Dede had given to the newspaper a copy of a tape which he claimed was a recorded phone conversation of Alhaji Sulley threatening him.

Reacting to the report, Mr. Sulley who doubles as the General Manager and News Editor of Asempa Radio 103.1mhz in Agogo in the Ashanti Region stated;

“There was a public convenient place (KVIP) in New Town a suburb of Agogo which was in a very bad state(death trap) and was to be redeveloped.

After demolishing the facility, the authorities refused to build a new one for the people and handed the land over to Nana Amakye to use it for his private project(swimming pool)”, he added.

He further explained that his deputy news editor broke the news on air which did not go down well with the youth of the area which eventually resulted in “picking axe” against the musician. And because of that, Amakye Dede caused for the arrest of the youth of that suburb (Agogo New Town).

In an exclusive interview with Thaddeus Harun (DaBlowsman) on Happy Hour on Ghana’s number one online radio based in Kumasi GHRadio1, Alhaji revealed that “Amakye Dede wrongly felt I’m Subbotaging him”

Addressing the “substantive matter”, he told GHRadio1 that on August 1, he was in a friend’s car from New Town to the Agogo Central Mosque pray. “On our way, we saw Amakye Dede and a newly installed chief called Samanhene who happens to be a mutual friend. Upon seeing them, I got down of our car to greet them but Nana Amakye told me not to greet him and verbally assaulted me”.

“I later called him on phone to resolve our differences but that also went to no avail. Tempers went high because I couldn’t withstand his insults and verbal abuse, I retaliated the second time I called him and we hunged up” he stated.

When asked if he really threatened to beat the High Life artist, he responded yes but was quick to add Amakye threatened him first; “he told me to meet him if I am a man like him. So I told him I have reliable information that he (Amakye Dede) has been ganging up with boys to assault people in Agogo. So I told him I will beat him if he make attempts on me”.

According to the Asempa Radio general manager, he was later attacked by the musician and his gang so he went to the Agogo police station to lodge a complain and he met Dede there too.