Beasts of No Nation” actor “Strika” found begging for money on the street despite being paid '$30k for movie'

Emmanuel Quaye, who starred in the movie "Beasts of No Nation", was found on the street begging for alms.

The Ghanaian child actor who is popularly known as Strika, his character in award-winning movie found the way to the Ghana Institute of Journalism campus begging for money on the road by a journalist Caleb Boye.

Boye shared photos of Strika on Facebook and wrote:

I am sad this morning.
I was heading to the Ghana Institute of Journalism campus and I met Striker. You would ask who is Striker? Striker starred in the movie Beast of No Nations. The said film that made Abraham Attah.
Today I met him begging for money on the road leading to GIJ. I called him and brought him to campus.
Speaking to him he tells me he now works with a gentleman who sells Yam at Agbogbloshie Market
He stays with his grandma at North Kaneshie.

Emmanuel was later featured on GHOne TV, where he shared about the circumstances that led to his present condition.

He revealed how all the earnings from his roles are locked up in an unknown bank account.

Emmanuel Quaye 'Strika' and Serwaa Amihere of GHOne TVStrika alleges that after shooting the movie a producer named Kofi Robert informed him that he would hold the money in trust by depositing into a bank account until he turned 18 but that hasn’t happened even though he is approaching 19.

Emmanuel said he was paid 30,000 for his role in the movie, but he doesn’t know if it was in cedis or dollars. However, reports say the amount was in US dollars.

Strika also said neither his 1% share of the profit gained by American service provider, Netflix, has reached him.

“After the movie, I was to be paid one per cent of the profit made from the movie. They told me it’s in the bank but I am yet to see the money,” he explained.

He also revealed that his relationship with his co-actor, Abraham Attah hasn’t been the same ever since he relocated to the USA.

“The way he [Abraham Attah] now behaves is not good. The way he talks; the way he replies is not good. He will be shouting on you and all stuff, I don’t know if it’s because he has traveled outside [sic],” he said.

The young actor also disclosed that he was paid GHC 10,000 for “Jungle Justice”, a movie he starred in after “Beast of No Nation”, but a manager by the name, Mawuko, used all the monies to buy him “clothes and shoes”.

“I shot Jungle Justice and was paid GHC 10,000 Ghana Cedis. Mawuko used the money to buy suits and other things the money was not given to me directly; I was only told," Strika disclosed.