Entertainer Sekon Sta says he fully welcomes the police investigation into his concert Sekon Sunday which took place at Queen’s Hall over the weekend, adding that he will not feed into the “negative energy” being placed in the public domain about the event.

“I fully support the TTPS and welcome any investigation into #SekonSunday. There are a lot of questions that the public want answered and I willing to cooperate in anyway that I can,” the artiste, whose real name is Nesta Boxill, posted via his Twitter on Tuesday afternoon. 

The entertainer subsequently took to his Instagram live hours later on Tuesday night, laying out the Covid-19 protocols observed by his team.

“I feel like it is my duty to fully explain myself because I recognize that we are in a pandemic- and safety is priority,” Sekon Sta said, adding: “The reason why I did it live is because it was above board and I didn’t feel the need to do have to do any editing or changing”

The entertainer said as soon as guests arrived at the venue, they were temperature checked, in keeping with Covid-19 guidelines. 

“Before we get to that- you could not get to into the venue if you were not invited…no tickets were sold for the event,” he pointed out.

He further explained that guests had pre-assigned seats and were required to fill out contact tracing forms before being permitted entry into the building. 

Though performance spaces are currently limited to 50% capacity, Sta said he made a decision to fill less than 220 of the 756 seats at Queen’s Hall, all of which had been spaced to maintain social distancing.

“This is because I was aware and Queen’s Hall was aware was that this is something that we were testing,” he said.

He says once the show was over, guests had to be ushered to their vehicles to ensure mingling was not allowed.

“I just wanted to give the people something for the culture”

With news of a police investigation, and the Culture Minister’s announcement that he would be rethinking the rules for performance spaces, Sekon says he fully respects those in authority. 

From his perspective as an entertainer, Sunday’s show was nothing more than an effort to “give the people hope for the industry.”

“There is a narrative that is going around and the one thing I will say publicly is that…this event has been an entire dream come true and no matter what they say, this is something for everyone,” he stated.

In Hind Sight, What Would Sekon Sta Have Done Differently?

Now that the curtains have closed and the show is over, Sekon Sta revealed to fans that if he could go back, there’s one thing he would have changed about his execution of the event.

That is, to leave the very first row in the audience vacant.

“Because people in the front row were coming up in front of the stage,” he said.

It’s something he believes could have also avoided misconceptions about the event which were derived from video shared online. 

Nevertheless, Sekon Sta is comfortable in knowing that the other elements of the show showed a blueprint for how live events could be approached on the context of a pandemic.