Award-winning rapper Amerado Burner was on Accra 100.5 FM’s Ayekoo Ayekoo midmorning programme, Monday, 19, 2023.

Host Nana Romeo asked for his thoughts on the raging controversy which names movie star Yvonne Nelson and music star Sarkodie.

“I ordinarily would not speak on this,” he noted, “but let me make it simple.”

“There’s no one who would build a tall house and desire for it to demolished by an excavators in just a day,” he said. “All of us working to progress make mistakes.”

He emphasised his “love” for Sarkodie and Yvonne Nelson, adding that his only “problem” with what is happening currently “is the online abuse”.

“Let’s exercise self-control in commenting because none of us is righteous,” he admonished the public.

He stressed that: “With love and respect, I’d say that let’s restrain ourselves.”

When Nana Romeo noted that it may be Sarkodie’s issue being discussed in the open today, Amerado responded with: “It could be anyone else tomorrow.”

The star rapper intimated that though concerning the very issue being discussed, members of the public may be guiltless, “those of us speaking on this issue, we, in fact, fall short in other aspects of life”.

Sarkodie, he said, “has built the brand to an extent that we think he is not human anymore and has no feelings but to err is human.”

He opined that Yvonne’s allegations against Sarkodie are “from 13 years ago,” and “it’s possible were the circumstances current, he would not have done it”.

Yvonne Nelson in her debut book, I’m Not Yvonne Nelson, has alleged “Michael Owusu Addo,” the rap superstar “better known as Sarkodie” once drove her to a suburb in Accra to have her abort a child of theirs.

The decision was arrived at, according to Yvonne’s narration because Sarkodie “didn’t want the pregnancy. That would damage him and his career” seeing as he was “a budding musician” whose “future looked uncertain”.

Another thought influenced the decision.

“The first thing that hit me when he said no to keeping the pregnancy was my own life. I had grown up without a father in my life. I had often been reminded of how I had been borne by mistake. I was still wondering if the man whose name I bore was my father. How was I going to bring another human being into this world to live like me, someone whose father would reject him or her as Mr. Nelson had rejected me? If there was a way to spare someone else the trauma I was contending with, why would I reject that option, especially when I was not psychologically and emotionally prepared to be a mother?” Yvonne reasoned, according to the book.