Showing posts with label DKB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DKB. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 June 2012

'I stand by my man' - DKB's girlfriend


Ghanaian comedian, DKB’s girlfriend is standing by her man. A smiling Sharon Dzifa appeared at a press conference for DKB in Accra, where the troubled comedian continued his fight to save his career.

DKB was kicked out of Big Brother after he slapped Zainab. There is clamour in Ghana for him to be sacked from his television comedy show because of his violence to women. But his girlfriend said her man was not violent. He had lost his head in the moment.
DKB continued to apologize for his actions. He took full responsibility for his actions and begged for forgiveness from all Ghanaians. He also said that he had learnt that when a woman starts provoking you, the best thing to do is to be a bigger man and walk away or sleep.

He also explained his copious use of foul language while in the Big Brother House, saying it was the environment he found himself in that made him use such language. As the host of a family game show, he explained that his he was aware of the context in which he was using the language; and often his fellow housemates, Prezzo and Roki made it easy for him to do so.

Friday, 8 June 2012

More woes for ousted BBA contestant DKB

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Derrick Kobina Boateng aka DKB, the Ghanaian comedian and representative at the Big Brother StarGame who got kicked out for slapping a female housemate, may have escaped assault charges but his woes are apparently not over.

He stands the risk of losing his job and a possible arrest for stealing from the Shoprite supermarket at the Accra Shopping Mall. There is a growing campaign from several woman’s rights groups in Ghana against the comedian and the latest twist are calls for his immediate dismissal from Viasat 1 TV where he works as an actor and scriptwriter of the ‘Laugh A Minute’ comedy TV show and also the host of television game show, ‘It Runs In The Family’.

While in the Big Brother contest, DKB had bragged on live TV that he was fond of stealing from the famous Shoprite supermarket at the Accra Shopping mall and this self-confession has also provoked calls for his arrest.

Speaking on Peace FM’s Entertainment Review hosted by Akwesi Aboagye on Thursday, musician and gender activist Yasmeen Helwani Nsiah disclosed that several persons had written to the African Women Development Foundation to back the campaign for DKB’s dismissal from Viasat 1. Meanwhile, DKB is reported to have issued a statement apologizing over the assault incident.