On Tuesday 18th May 2010, Radio Maisha’s Programming Manager Ali Manzu called Mombasa based Alphonce Oladipoh (Formerly With Radio Salaams, Now A Breakfast Presenter On Baraka Fm) and told him they were looking for someone to voice some station Identifications and Jingles plus program promos for their new station.
On Thursday of that same week, Oladipoh walked into the Radio Maisha studio and for 6 hours recorded over 25 different scripts ranging from Breakfast to the night talk show.
They even asked him to record 8 Pre Launch teasers detailing the frequencies of the new station and the towns. These teasers ran between Friday 21st May to Sunday 24th May.
In between the recording Oladipoh asked Kizito Namulanda (the Head of Swahili Services Standard Group) about the contract and he was told to ‘just continue, tumalize hii kwanza.’
After all this Oladipoh went back home, waiting for his cheque. He invoiced 100,ooo which Ali quickly said was too much so he changed the figure to 70,000. Ali still insisted the amount was too much.
Days after Oladipoh got a job at Baraka FM, Radio Maisha stopped using the jingles and they hired someone from Tanzania to do the voice over at a way cheaper rate. But at the end of the day they did use Oladipoh’s voice. When he tried getting word on his pay for the used jingles he kept on being referred until yesterday when he was told that they wont pay him.
Okay, Oladipoh didn’t have a contract, but if what he recorded was not worthy, why did Radio Maisha use the Voice Overs?
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