Okuraseni Samuel punches TV3 over Doris death

Ghanaian musician Okuraseni Samuel of TV3’s ‘Mentor 1’ fame has told Flex newspaper that TV3 has been ungrateful to Doris, a former contestant of the maiden edition of their talent discovery programme, Mentor, when she passed away few weeks ago.

“I am really disappointed in TV3 because I think when they bring the reality shows like mentor and others, their main motive is to make the money and that is all because Doris died some few weeks ago and apart from saying it in the news bulletin, nothing else was done and now Doris has been laid to rest”, he lamented.

Okuraseni continued that they could even have observed a minute silence for her at the launch of ‘Mentor VII’ a fortnight ago.

“Even if Doris has done nothing for you, she was on your reality show and you benefitted from her. What pains me most is that she died after some weeks of delivery. Isn’t this a pity for TV3 and the ‘Mentor Crew’ to show love or even show their last respect to the girl, is that they way to hate? You hate somebody to the extent that you even went ahead to launch ‘Mentor VII’? If nothing at all, on the day of the launch just one minute of silence for her will even make her soul happy. You even have archives of her performances in your library so why not even edit her part and play it on air for her fans and your viewers too”, he continued.

He also said it was not right for the organizers to have used Guru as a surprise guest for ‘Mentor VII.’ “Though Guru is my brother he shouldn’t have been used as a guest. Because it was a Mentor programme, they needed to go in for some of the old mentor contestants, who have at least had that experience before” he said.