No car for Miss Ghana @ 50

Miss Ghana @ 50, Frances Takyi-Mensah has still not received her prize car for winning the beauty pageant last year, Daily Guide investigations have revealed.

Meanwhile Frances is expected to handover her crown to the winner of this year’s Miss Ghana beauty contest in August.

Shirley Frimpong Manso, the managing director of Sparrow Productions, organizers of Miss Ghana, told Beatwaves on Friday that the car had been handed over to Frances, but interestingly the beauty queen also denied receiving the car when contacted.

She however indicated that she was still waiting for the organizers to bring her car as promised.

Frances Takyi Mensah was crowned Miss Ghana on March 2, 2007 and received among other prizes ¢25 million, LG home appliances and a Jaguar X-Type as an official car during her reign as agreed between Sparrow Productions and Fairllop International Limited.

She was also to receive another car after her reign but that seems not to have been the case.

Meanwhile, Beatwaves had on a number of occasions spotted the beauty queen using a taxicab instead of the Jaguar in carrying out her project. Such was the situation when she visited the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital to make some donations to patients at the Cardiothoracic Center and when she visited DAILY GUIDE offices this year.

When questioned about the car, Frances was tight-lipped, indicating that as part of her contract with Sparrow Productions she is to grant interview to anyone only in their (organizers’) presence. She, however, granted an interview on other issues concerning her project.

It is on record her Jaguar official car was presented to her somewhere in June last year, after Sparrow Productions had some serious criticisms from the media.

Later, Beatwaves gathered that the car was taken from her with the explanation that it was being sent for maintenance. As such, she was promised her second car which she would use personally and to support her project.

But a close source told Beatwaves; “Miss Ghana has since not heard a word about the car”.

If by the end of this month she does not get her car, would she go to court to seek redress as did Miss Ghana 2005, Lamisi Mbillah, or she would stay calm as she’s been doing, till everything is over?

It would be recalled that Lamisi Mbillah, during her reign, dragged Sparrow Productions to court for reneging on its promise to give her all her prizes.

In the suit, Lamisi instructed her lawyers to ensure that Sparrow Productions meets its obligations as contained in the LG Miss Ghana 2005 Event Brochure.

The prizes the organisers promised to give her included a car; prize money of $10,000; travel tickets and monthly allowance.

Meanwhile some influential persons have disclosed to Beatwaves that if Frances refuses to act they would act on her behalf.

According to them this is to ensure that Miss Ghana contestants and Ghanaians are not taken for a ride as well as ensure that organizers of the event become more accountable to contestants and winners of the pageant.