Music entrepreneur Bullet has strongly suggested Dancehall singer Shatta Wale has fallen victim to a witch-hunt.

He framed the detention of the singer as an "arrest," too, asserting "there's more to it" than met the eye.

"It's more of a witch-hunt because the system has been designed for musicians and stars to be poor, so that they can suspress us and all of that. It's from the top," he explained.

The Rufftown Records founder and CEO intimated Shatta Wale had broken that jinx, and the system meant to squash him to deter others.

"They don't understand that a musician has been able to make so much money. They don't understand that a musician has been able to buy a house in Trassaco, own Shaxi, own estates, doing oil and a whole lot [more]. The system wants to tell us that, 'You can never make it as a musician'," Bullet emphasised.

He urged other musicians not to jubilate over the Dancehall musician's plight, but consider it a cautionary tale.

"The opps, the other musicians, they shouldn't be happy that Shatta Wale has been arrested. It's deeper than you guys think," he urged. 

Bullet, alias Ruff, eulogised Shatta Wale as a crusader who had successfully led the charge to ensure musicians were valued and enormously compensated for their services, in an industry that notoriously took entertainers for granted.

"Back in the day, when we were active, when Ruff & Smooth was active, the highest money we were able to receive as an artist was like GHS3,000," he revealed, constrating, "Shatta Wale came in the industry [and] changed everything. Now, artistes can charge [up to] GHS300,000 for a show. Shatta Wale came into the industry [and] started taking [up to] US$150,000 for a show.

"So he changed something, he showed the way that musicians, too, can make money. So the arrest is deeper than you guys think."

Bullet spoke when he went to the Economic & Organised Crime Office earlier today to solidarise with Shatta Wale who had been detained over his possession of a 2019 Lamborghini Urus, he claimed to have bought for US$150,000. When questioned about the seller of the luxury vehicle, the singer failed to produce a name. The yellow Lamborghini has been linked to a US$4 million crime in the United States, for which a Ghanaian, Nana Kwabena Amuah, was serving jail time in the US.

Incidentally, an EOCO statement said, "Charles Nii Armah [Shatta Wale] Mensah does not also possess any documentation in terms of receipt or transfer documents which shows that he owns or purchased the said vehicle except a custom declaration document in his possession bearing the name of Nana Kwabena Amuah who is currently in jail."