Pro-NPP activist, Castin Billz, is insinuating that social media influencers are selling their conscience for money.
In a post X, he shared the photos of influencers Kalyjay and SDK, while alleging that influencers receive transportation fare of GHC2,000 to attend an event they are invited to and provided written questions to ask.
The post did not explicitly provide further context.
However, other netizens who have reacted to the post believe that Castin is accusing these influencers of receiving money from political parties in order to attend their event.
At the National Democratic Congress‘s (NDC) town hall meeting held at the Bukom Arena, the event drew a notable crowd that included politicians, media figures like Bernard Avle and Umaru Sanda, as well as social media influencers such as Kalyjay and SDK, whose images were shared by Castin.
Following the event, social media was abuzz with reactions, and prominent influencer Kwadwo Sheldon joined the discussion with a controversial claim.
He alleged that the NDC had extended an invitation to him but that he declined because they intended to provide predetermined questions for him to ask John Mahama, the party’s Flagbearer.
“You know what be funny about this? They invited me for the Bukom thing on condition that they will give me the question to ask JDM..said it’s either my personal questions or nah…be like they weren’t interested in that so I played FIFA.
“I was told on the phone I was going to be given a question to ask the former president.. that’s what I was told!!” he wrote.
Sheldon expressed his discontent online, stating that he was informed by phone that he would be given a specific question to pose to Mahama, which he found unappealing. Instead of participating, he chose to spend his time playing FIFA.
He further suggested that many influencers present at the event accepted these conditions but have remained silent about it.
“Most of your influencers here know about what I’m talking about tho… They know! And it goes beyond just the questions but hey we move,” he stated.