Popular and celebrated radio and television personality Kofi Okyere Darko popularly known as KOD has revealed how the Chief Executive Officer of one of Ghana’s most fledgling Media empires, Excellence in Broadcasting (EIB) Network, Nathan Kwabena Anokye Adisi, affectionately called Bola Ray had to step in to intervene when his wife piled up pressure on him to quit the company.
According the host of Starr Drive on Starr 103.5 FM, Bola Ray had to personally call his (KOD) wife and talk to her and convince her that the low times the company was currently facing was only temporary.
“There are other people who had stress from family. I did at some point. My wife was worried. In actual fact at a point, Bola had to call her personally because we’re family that Charlie we were going through a low tide and it’s not permanent we’ll overcome this. Bola had to call my wife,” he said.
KOD who was speaking on an Accra based media network said he believed in loyalty and would not yield or succumb to pressure and advice from friends and family to quit EIB, arguing that he saw worse stuff when he worked for Radio Gold for 18 years.
He said “I had some pressure from my wife Charlie. Some people are leaving, why are you still there? I’m like no I can’t do this. I can’t do this I believe in loyalty. I’d done 18 years at Radio Gold. Do you know what it was like at Radio Gold? Radio Gold is very political so when NDC is in power, they’re in a good place. When they’re in opposition they’re in a bad place. So in and out and I stayed for 18 years. I know how to deal with these things”.
KOD said he has mastered the art of surviving under such turbulent situations saying “And I don’t focus on getting resources from one place. You have Nineteen 57, and you have some gigs, you’re hosting some events. There are times that maybe you won’t be paid well but you still go for it because it might pay for electricity, you can sort out one of your nephews who’s coming to you for school fees because I’m Ashanti. That’s what we do”.
Just recently in a no-holds-barred interview, Bola Ray revealed that some 180 plus staff of the company had left over the last one year, emanating from some challenges they are currently facing.
He was optimistic the challenges are merely a storm in a tea cup that will end soon.
Source: BestNewsGH.com
