Leila Jewel Djansi is “appalled at how majority of folks on Ghana social media are comforting and pampering” Chef Smith.

Ebenezer Smith, alias Chef Smith or Millennium Chef Smith, embarked on a Guinness World Records cooking marathon between February 1 and March 6, 2024, when he had no official approval, and announced himself winner, showing off a fake certificate, at a July 2 press conference.

Confessing, while weeping, on Saturday, July 6, Smith said he had “wronged the entire nation, sinned greatly and do not deserve to live”. He said he was motivated by the dire need of a platform to “showcase my God-given talent” to secure “a permanent job so I can take care of my sisters and entire family”.

His assistant chef Leticia Sankah, alias Tisha Bites, has bemoaned and apologised for contributing to the farce when she only sought to support someone she trusted.

Gospel singer and sound engineer Nacee has asked Ghana and its leaders for forgiveness for Smith, touched by his tears.

The award-winning filmmaker Leila Djansi, however, is not moved. She suspects the push, especially on social media, to forgive Chef Smith is being championed by people who secretly engage in fraudulent activities.

Ms Djansi asked for a mass shunning and boycotting of Smith and his services as punishment, arguing his actions revealed a deep-seated “brazen deception” which has been long-nurtured.

She called Smith “a psychopath” who had trivialised the efforts of Guinness World Records title holders like Wally Funk (oldest woman in space), Zion Clark (fastest man on two hands) and Malala Yousafzai (youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner).

Emphasising a moral necessity to penalise Smith for dragging Ghana’s name in the mud, the movie director argued forgiveness must not mean an absence of punishment, evidenced, in her opinion, by a biblical story in which God forgave King David for adultery and murder but caused him great sorrow by taking the life of the child of his adulterous action and further divided his kingdom.

For the US-based filmmaker, Chef Smith’s GWR scam offers an opportunity for her home country to do a much-needed introspection and “sanitize Ghana”. If this is not done, she contended, it would only prove Ghana was indeed a notorious abuser of spiritual grace; a nation with an overwhelming number of Christian citizens of a church-going culture but shockingly with no practical regard for punishing wrong and incentivising uprightness.

Addressing the recent infatuation with GWR titles, she wondered why Ghanaians were only attempting “self-aggrandizing stuff like singing and cooking,” intimating there are greater and inspiring categories and accolades to explore beyond entertainment.

“Go get a Nobel Peace Prize. How about you aim for that instead?” the Sinking Sands creator challenged on Facebook, Sunday, July 7.

Click below to see the Ghanaian-American's statement in its entirety.