I was paid 300ghc for the NPP campaign advert – SHS teacher who campaigned for NPP Reveals

Many people will always connect him with the 2020 general election billboard commercial he appeared in. Take note of me. Your vote is essential to my capacity to pay my bills.

He has profited from NABCO (Nations Builders Corps), the government's flagship initiative, where he currently works as a teacher.

The 35-year-old, who goes by the name Nicholas Teye, asserts that the extensive NPP campaign and the party's success in the presidential election have put his life in risk.

In an interview with TV3, Nicholas claimed that because of his support for the government, many Ghanaians held him personally accountable for the economic problems of the nation.

The SHS educator said he felt threatened enough to the point that he now wears a nose mask and a cap anytime he leaves the house.

“My major challenge is the threat. So any time I have to go out I have to put on a nose mask and sometimes a cap so that I have to disguise myself.

“Sometimes, I will be in the room, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday without going out because I am afraid if I step out I don't know what will happen to me. The moment they see you they are angry and they want to beat you because you are part of the reasons why they are suffering. Sometimes they will call you and threaten you.

“Sometimes my wife will tell me where I am going, if I have the money I should take Uber,” Teye narrated.

The teacher indicated that he was not told that his photo will be used for a campaign billboard.

He said he was paid ¢300 for the advert.
Nicholas said that he was a NABCO recipient and was informed that his picture would be used in a calendar and a magazine, not a political advertisement, and that if anybody found out the truth, they would be eligible for a payment of $300.

Before receiving the $300, he was required to sign a document stating that he consented to the use of his image in the NPP 2020 campaign, a promise he had not previously made.

“I was very angry when I read the notice because I told them they should have informed me earlier before snapping the photo, so I did not sign and I left.

When I got home, my wife and the woman who helped me with funds to pay for the NABCO training said I should go for the money…I later went and signed for the ¢300…,” Nicholas Teye stressed.