The first runner-up in the first edition of Stars of the Future competition, William Ramzy Amui, popularly known as Ramzy has revealed that his girlfriend broke up with him a month after he was arrested for stealing.

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In an exclusive interview with  Pulse.com.gh the ex-convict said his girlfriend gave up on him when he needed her the most.

“She came to me in prison just a month I had stayed there and told me she cannot be with me any longer.”

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Ramzy who served his jail sentence at the Nsawam medium security prison said his girlfriend explained that “She is the first born and has other 5 siblings after her…..she was not growing any younger, she needed to get married before her younger siblings could and thus cannot wait for me.”

“Amazingly, I have stayed in prison for 10 years and only to come home and learn that she is still not married," he added.

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Before his incarceration, Ramzy was a fast rising star in the Ghanaian music industry. He placed second at the Stars of the Future in 2006 and also auditioned for the M-Net West Africa Idol contest in Nigeria in 2007.

He was arrested only a few days before the date he was scheduled to go and compete in Nigeria.

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He was handed a 10-year imprisonment with hard labour by the Tema High court presided over by Justice Peter Offei for his role in robbing a complainant of her 4×4 Toyota Highlander and an amount of GH¢300 at gunpoint.