Chef Failatu Abdul Razak, the Ghanaian chef who stole the hearts of many with her Guinness World Record cook-a-thon attempt, recounted how Ibrahim Mahama changed her life.
While awaiting confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records that she is the world record holder for the longest cooking marathon, having cooked for 227 hours,
Aside from being a chef. Failatu Abdul-Razak is a well-known musician in the northern part of Ghana, with a stage name, Jah Bless Faila, with a handful of hit songs that call for peace and development in the region.
As the country continues to celebrate her feat, An old interview that has now gone viral, portrayed her humble beginning and how one man, renowned Ghanaian businessman and brother of former President John Dramani Mahama Ibrahim Malhama changed her life.
According to her, she was nothing had nothing” when a friend encouraged attempt Businessmanhuge sumssome timecookingreading. I her to go and meet Ibrahim Mahama when he came to her hometown. Tamale Her encounter with the former president’s brother she said altered her life for good
This is the first time I’m saying this on air, “I had fasted on that day and we were just about to break our fast when one of my male friends called me and told me that Fala, l heard that Ibrahim Mahama had come and he’s at Garba Lodge,
You are doing very well with your music. It’s just that you don’t have support I want you to try and go to him by yourself, Go and tell that man to support you,
Chef Faila narrated. She added, “And if you are lucky. the man is going to support you, My house is just around Kamina. I took my hijab and wore it and I took my veil and just kept it on my head, took my motorbike.
I was in front of Garba Lodge. God being so graceful When I got there, he was just coming out of his accommodation and the security was heavy there. The now-renowned Chef Faila then went on to narrate how she gathered confidence to approach Ibrahim Mahama.
Despite the security around him “I confidently started walking straight towards the man All of a sudden, the security pounced on me Why are you going? Come back Come back But I kept moving, so they rushed to come and hold me back Then the man did this (a sign) and said, leave her.
When I got closer to the man after the security left me. he was going for dinner and they had called for prayers for us to break our fast So he said let’s go and have dinner together, This is something somebody told me my whole life. I could get such an opportunity I wouldn’t believe it, she said
The chef said that after speaking to Mahama about what she does and the help she needs, the businessman sent for a bag and the money she was given to support what she was doing nearly made her faint.
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