At a time that fans taking pictures with their favourite celebrities have become a dream of many Ghanaians, sensational Kumawood actor Kwasi Boadi, popularly known as Akrobeto, has vowed never to take pictures with fans irrespective of the circumstances.
According to the anchor of UTV’s comic ‘Real News’ show, this decision was informed by his past experience where pictures he took with fans nearly landed him in deep trouble on many occasions.
“As a celebrity, you must be very careful. Honestly, I don’t even take pictures with fans. I don’t like it. This is because in times past many people have snapped pictures with me which nearly landed me in trouble. Due to this, I don’t want to take pictures with fans,” Kwasi Boadi Akrobeto told Kofi Adoma.
“If a fan does not understand my position, it does not matter to me. In this world, one must learn from his or her past experiences,” he emphasised.
Explaining the decision to Kofi Adoma on Kofi TV, the Kumawood veteran actor, revealed that a lot of people who took pictures with him in the past have taken advantage of the picture to perpetrate crime in his name.
Citing examples to buttress his decision, Akrobeto said a gentleman in Kumasi that he (Akrobeto) does not know personally, took a picture with him, only to claim late that he is a “relative” of Akrobeto.
The man allegedly used that claim to impregnated a 16-year old who wanted to go into acting.
In another instance, another gentleman used his name to rent a car based on a picture he has with him and never returned the car until he (Akrobeto) was confronted by the owners of the garage.
That is not all. Akrobeto said a self-proclaimed spiritualist, who took a picture with him some years ago, used him as bait to lure people to patronise his services claiming that he (the spiritualist) has been helping him (Akrobeto) to succeed. A claim he described as palpable falsehood.
He also recounted how the husband of a lady who snapped a picture with him threatened him for months with the claim that he (Akrobeto) is trying to snatch his wife.
On the back of these problems, he encountered in times past, he has resolved never to take pictures with his numerous fans as he has become very careful so that such unpleasant situations will not be encountered again in future.