Wiyala dares Shatta Wale on blocking her from receiving her summer award

Musician Wiyaala has given an account of what happened on stage at the Summerstage event held in the United States of America.

According to her, the initial agreement was that she and Shatta Wale would be presented with a Citation of Merit by Vanessa L Gibson, President of The Bronx Borough on stage during an interval in his performance at @SummerStageNYC.

However, At about 8.15 pm Shatta wale’s performance was paused and Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson and Wiyaala went to the back of the stage for the presentation of the citations.

Wiyaala says she was told to wait backstage whiles Shatta Wale’s citation was being given to him.

She said after the citation was given to Shatta Wale, Vanessa L. Gibson vacated the stage without calling her.

She said she was then told that she can take her citation backstage; something that put her off so she left for her hotel.

Wiyaala in a post shared on Facebook said Vanessa blamed organizers for the mishap but it eventually emerged that Team Shatta Wale blocked her from calling Wiyaala on stage to present her citation to her.

She has, therefore, thrown a challenge at Shatta Wale to confirm or deny if he did not block her from taking the citation.

Read Wiyaala’s account below

At approximately 6pm 13th August, Wiyaala was advised that she and Shatta Wale would be presented with a Citation of Merit by Vanessa L Gibson, President of The Bronx Borough on stage during an interval in his performance at @SummerStageNYC
At about 8.15 pm Shatta wale’s performance was paused and Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson and Wiyaala went to the back of the stage for the presentation of the citations.

Vanessa went forward to do the presentation whilst an unknown person advised Wiyaala to wait. The presentation was made to Shatta Wale.

Vanessa then immediately vacated the stage without calling Wiyaala forward. Wiyaala was then told she could receive her award back stage out of sight of the audience. Wiyaala refused to accept the award under these circumstances and left Crotona Park for her hotel.

Vanessa was challenged by members of Wiyaala’s team as to why she had not been called forward to receive her Citation
On stage. Initially Vanessa blamed the organisers (SummerStage NYC), but eventually said that she had been blocked from calling Wiyaala forward by Team Shatta Wale.

Wiyaala does not accept awards or citations from any organization backstage.

Wiyaala respectfully requests that Team Shatta Wale confirm if they did block Wiyaala coming on stage to receive her citation at the same time as Shatta Wale.

And if they did no such thing, then Vanessa L Gibson should account for why she disrespected Wiyaala in this manner on a night of supposed unity and mutual support.

Unless acceptable and credible explanations are forthcoming, Wiyaala has no intention of accepting the Citation of Merit supposedly awarded her by the Bronx Borough.

This is what happened and we now move on. Cased closed, good night #Roarrrrrr 🦁🌍🦁✌🏾