Arguably Joy FM’s most celebrated regional correspondent presently, Rafik Salam, whose sign-off tune, Waaaaaaaaaa, was guest of iconic MC, Bola Ray, on Joy Drive Time. The man who has not only a unique voice but a hilariously fantastic intonation, reports from the Upper West Region – mostly the regional capital Wa, no! Waaaaaaaa, as Rafik usually puts it. A story filed from the region by Rafik is incomplete without the signing off statement “for Joy news, Rafik Salam, Waaaaa.” It was all laughter, smiles and giggles when Rafik entered the studios for a chat with Bola Ray. He mocked at 'news' that he was moving to the BBC as 'pleasant rumour.' When a text message was read to him sent by a lady listener who wants to go out for lunch with Rafik, he paused for a while and said he will think about. His high sense of humour is unmistaken and he kept everybody laughing. Asked whether he will mind which part of the country his wife comes from, Rafik Salam said not at all because his being born a Wala is a birth accident. “I could have been born a British, an Ewe or an Akan.” Rafik Salam said his intonation must have been influenced by his early studies of the Qur’an which he said he had committed about 60 verses of the Holy Book to memory by age 11.