Stonebwoy’s public relations officer, Vida Adutwumwaa, has waded into the ongoing conversation about American rapper Ja Rule’s recent school project in Ghana — and she’s keeping it real.
Speaking in an interview, Vida admitted that while Ghanaians truly appreciate Ja Rule’s kind gesture, expectations were naturally higher considering his global status and influence.
“It’s not as if we don’t appreciate what he has done. However, if you look at Ja Rule’s status and his achievements in the music industry in America, he’s impacted a lot of things, and so if you hear that he’d build a project in a country, you would expect that it would be something monumental,” she said.
Her comments come on the back of mixed reactions from Ghanaians, with some expressing disappointment over the simplicity of the school structure Ja Rule helped build.
Vida explained that most of the criticism isn’t about ungratefulness but about expectations versus reality.
“So, for those critiquing, it is not that they don’t appreciate the gesture. Because the money that reportedly went into the project, another contractor would have built something more modernised.
“I’m sure if they had given the job to another contractor, there would be a few touches that would have been done to make the building a little more pleasing,” she added.
