The dancehall queen expressed disappointment in NAFAA and how allegedly keep on exploiting and using the women and struggling musicians trying to make it. He also accused two top runners in the organisation, who are men, of wrongdoing.
“I have been quiet about my show. I owe nobody any explanation because The Gambian didn’t support me on my show. I am not here to talk about my show because I am here to talk about NAFAA.
“Kalilu Banjang, I don’t know what he is at NAFAA. The whole of NAFAA not anyone of them called me to say, ‘Sophia, how are you coping with your show; come let’s help each other. None of them did. Not one member of NAFAA called me about my show,” she said.
“I called Muhamed. I told him, ‘you NAFAA whenever you need money, you call. When you want this, you call me; when you want that you call me, at times even early in the morning and I would come.
“Yet I have a show, and none of you even come to me to even tell me, ‘this is what we have; let us manage. Or maybe even ask me in what way you could help.
“NAFAA in our first show had more than 10,000 US dollars. They ate all that money. The women were even fighting to get their money. They gave each artiste D10,000. Some of them gave D5,000 and they didn’t even pay some people till now.
The artiste warned NAFA that she doesn’t want to expose them because of God.
“Kalilu, you, God will punish you. You will die before your time,” she warned.
She said Kalilu should not tell any artiste to humble themselves but he himself should humble himself. “Yet you are saying these artistes should humble themselves. You should humble yourself and stop eating the sweat of women.
“You people are the reason, first of all, Benjamin [one of The Gambia’s greatest reggae and dancehall artistes] left The Gambia. You people, are the cause; Muhammed Sumareh, that short idiot, and you Kalilu are the reason Bejamin, with all his talent, left Gambia.
“It is you people; you useless people. He realized that you were using him. Every day Benjamin. You will go with him, eat the money and then give him chicken change. That is why Benjamin left. Now you are saying Sophia should humble herself. Humble myself for what?” she said reacting to a comment made recently by Kalilu Banja, who asked artists to humble themselves.
“The musicians of the Gambia should humble themselves and be ready to learn, listen and make their lives better. You are just an artiste. Your career is dictated, promoted and managed by people,” Kalilu wrote on his Facebook timeline.
Going further, Sophia said: “Nafa I used to give you. When you are in need, it is me that you call. Yet, there you are, taking money from Europe, eating the money and sending us chicken change.”
Sophia also urged all women to leave the organisation, which she said would do nothing for them but exploit them.
