Presidential aspirant Nana Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Cheddar or Freedom Jacob Caesar, has disclosed that he invested $300,000 in orchestrating the 'The Convention' program for his outfit, New Africa Foundation. Unfortunately, national security halted the event just hours before it was set to commence.

Cheddar lamented that his entire investment in the program, designed to bring renowned African intellectuals to inspire the people of Ghana, was unjustifiably thwarted.

During an interview on TV3 on Thursday, January 11, 2024, the presidential hopeful stated that the event organizers received $150,000, while the remaining $150,000, potentially more, was allocated for bringing in speakers, artists, and other logistical aspects of the event.

“I am kind of confused and I trying to ask the nation, I want the nation to put themselves in my shoes. Because I’m going by the law… and I go and invest $300,000 into an event, into something that would inspire the nation and they just come and tear it down.

“… we even asked for protocol help and then paid for security and 80 policemen were assigned. But they came back the very day and started pulling everything down… I don’t know how to say it for you to understand my pain because that investment can also take care of my children,” he said.

He added, “The show itself was costing us $150,000 and then all the other logistics, bringing people in and other people who are performing and all of that, cost the rest.”

Cheddar also said that the treatment of the African leaders who were in the country to speak at his event has dented the image of Ghana.

“We brought four Africans who have spoken and spent three decades of their lives fighting for a better Africa, we brought them into Ghana to speak to the youth and to speak to the continent, the person that was behind the event is a Ghanaian… watch how all of us were attacked,” he said.