Apologise to Stonebwoy or face the law— GSPD warns Shatta Wale
The Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD), has warned the self-acclaimed Dancehall King, Shatta Wale to apologise to all persons living with disabilities most especially, his colleague Stonebwoy for using his disability to mock him.
According to the group, disability is not a curse and making mockery of such individuals is punishable by law.
A statement issued yesterday in Accra by the GSPD and signed by the National President, Mr. Matthew Annor Kodom, the organisation had seen a viral video on social media where Shatta Wale mocked Stonebwoy using his disability.
In the said video, the dancehall musician said, “You are a bad person that is why God made you a disabled person, you are a disabled person don’t try and fight an able person.”
The GSPD took offense in such a statement, emphasizing the point that, Shatta Wale meant that God made all persons with disabilities that way due to their bad nature.
“We want to remind Shatta Wale that a section of his own fans are persons with disabilities,” it said.
GSPD took exception to that statement and has called on Shatta Wale as a matter of urgency retract the statement, remove the video from social media and apologise to all persons with disability as well as Ghanaians.
The statement mentioned that Shatta Wale’s words were primitive and exhibited his irresponsible nature and re-echoed that being a person with disability did not mean “you are cursed, or God is punishing you.”
Referencing the Disability Act 715, the GSPD said, using a person’s disability to mock him or her or making derogatory remarks about a person’s disability is a punishable offence and charged Ghanaians to have empathy towards people in such conditions.
Source: www.spotonnews.net
