The Chief Executive Officer of God’s Time Khebab, Atinga Nsobila Joel is currently embarking on a Guinness World Record attempt aiming to pull up an impressive 90 hours of longest barbecue marathon.
The university graduate is attempting to break the current record for the longest barbecue at the Legon City mall in Accra expecting to produce 10,000 sticks of khebab.
Announcing his ambitious endeavour on social media, Joel expressed his excitement, stating, “Glad to announce my 90hrs longest barbecue marathon commences.”
you won’t come ?? sleep er #Khebabathon 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/KxPk9xNPFK
— Scanty SZN (@EiiScanty) April 11, 2024
Atinga begun his record attempt on Thursday, April 11, the same day Muslims celebrated their Eid-ul-Fitr and will end on Sunday, April 14.
The meats being grilled by Atinga is shared to Ghanaians who have embraced the marathon and thronged the Legon city mall to support him. Viral video show people queued up for free khebab at the Legon city mall.
The queue at Legon City Mall for Atinga’s #Khebabathon nor be play 🤣🤣 Wenam !!! pic.twitter.com/CNAbnbEljO
— IndosTv 🦅 (@IndosTv_) April 12, 2024
Atinga revealed in an interview ahead of the commencement of his marathon that Khebab business has been a family business which his father started.
He said he was able to finance his education from primary to the tertiary level with income earned from the Khebab business.
Atinga said he’s inspired to embark on this marathon to dispel the perception that Khebab business is only meant for the uneducated.
“I’m trying to do this to encourage people to take this as a source of livelihood and support themselves and their families and also dispute the wrong notion that we have about some kind of jobs that are for people who are only uneducated,” Atinga told Culture Joint.
I love everyone showing up for me pic.twitter.com/U4TURtE3PL
— Atinga Nsobila Joel (@atinga_joel) April 11, 2024
He joins the list of Ghanaians who have embarked on Guinness World Record attempts in the past months. Notably amongst them are; Afua Asantewaa who attempted the longest singing marathon and failed, Chef Faila who attempted the longest cooking marathon ad also failed.
Others such as Kaakyire Agyemang and Adu Sarfowaa have all not been officially confirmed as record holders after their attempt.
