I'm sorry, I love and respect our Ga women — Nii Funny makes U-turn after negative tag on Ga ladies

After incurring the wrath of the Ga community with his recent derogatory comments about them, Ga musician Ishmael Nii Ardey Ankrah, better known as Nii Funny, has apologised.

The musician described Ga women as "lazy and beggars" who ask for money on the spur of the moment in a statement that sparked outrage and several insults directed at him.

He explained in an interview on Accra-based Peace FM's entertainment show that such attitudes from his native Ga women were the reasons he never married from them.

“The girls in my Ga town don’t like me. They’re afraid of me. I also don’t like some of their characters. The ladies like to beg a lot. Any small opportunity, they’ll ask you for money.

“When you query them on what they need the money for they say they going to buy funeral cloth and sow for a late uncle’s father’s stepbrother’s funeral. And finally, few of them like to work, they’re lazy,” he said backing it with experiences from those he encountered.

However, after being chastised by his people and many from the entire Ghanaian society, he has chosen a safer way by retracting and apologising for his utterances.

In an apology statement issued by the rapper and dated September 17, copied to Modernghana News, he wrote, “I cannot damage the reputation of all Ga women. I know and I have read of several illustrious Ga women in all sectors of development from commerce to religion to politics to global leadership to invention and several Ga mothers who are the breadwinners of their homes: Ga women of repute, worthy of emulation.”

It adds “I am sorry for the impression created. That was not the import of my message in the context I spoke about my sad experience.

“I am not against Ga women, I am an offspring of an eminent Ga woman and I have a sweet Ga daughter who would grow into a great Ga woman.”

Find a copy of his apology statement below;