MEETING YOU: MORAN DECLARES 100% SUPPORT FOR CHIEF TONY OKOROJI...

MEETING YOU: MORAN DECLARES 100% SUPPORT FOR CHIEF TONY OKOROJI...: Members of Music Label Owners & Recording Industries Association of Nigeria (MORAN), the largest association of producers, p...

MORAN DECLARES 100% SUPPORT FOR CHIEF TONY OKOROJI AS CHAIRMAN OF COSON.

Members of Music Label Owners & Recording Industries Association of Nigeria (MORAN), the largest association of producers, publishers of music and label owners across Nigeria, hereby declare our 100% support for Chief Tony Okoroji as Chairman of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) of which members of MORAN constitute a significant block.

MORAN vehemently condemns the attempt by some Abuja based government officials to meddle in the internal affairs of COSON, a very successful and completely private sector organization, built without one Naira contribution from the government.

We reject the attempt to impose on COSON one EfeOmorogbe, an individual totally rejected by the members of COSON as chairman of our fledging organization of which we are very proud of.   

We consider the attempt to foist Omorogbe on us as a scheme to install a puppet at COSON, manipulate the organization and loot its resources the same way the resources of the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), set up to protect our industry, have been looted and the commission left comatose.

All the key officers of MORAN were present at COSON House, Lagos on December 19, 2017 when the members of COSON from every corner of Nigeria at our General Assembly, in one voice, voted to restore Chief Tony Okoroji as our Chairman. We went further to resolve that Mr. Omorogbe ceases immediately to be a member of our Board.

We are therefore stunned to learn that despite our clear and unambiguous democratic decision, Mr. Omorogbe with his cohorts, bouncers and area boys on March 6 by force attempted to take over the magnificent COSON House commissioned in May last year at an event that Omorogbe was too busy to attend. We find it confounding to learn that Omorogbe was accompanied in his ill-fated mission by an officer of the scandal ridden NCC, despite the fact thatEfeOmorogbe’s desperate behavior is before the law courts.

We commend the excellent staff of COSON who took gallant steps to ensure that this unwanted visitor and his gang of interlopers did not gain entrance into COSON House which stands tall today as a product of the vision, commitment and ceaseless energy of our Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji who has earned the trust that the Nigerian creative community has in him.

We commend the Management of COSON for the complete rejection of EfeOmorogbe’s Greek gifts and his cheap ‘divide and rule’ tricks.

We are proud of the reconstituted COSON Board for its steadfastness in protecting the independence of COSON and in pursuing the reversal at the Court of Appeal of the recent curious judgment of the Federal High Court on MCSN, NCC and the AGF after the case file had been seized in mysterious circumstances.

We restate our 100% support for Chief Tony Okoroji who has been tried and tested repeatedly and never once found wanting in his commitment to the promotion and protection of the creative industry in Nigeria.

We warn Mr. EfeOmorogbe to desist from further being used to destabilize COSON as the members have given him enough time to retrace his steps.

 FOR AND BEHALF OF MORAN:

MEETING YOU: CRISIS AT COPYRIGHT COMMISSION ASCALATES AS STAFF ...

MEETING YOU: CRISIS AT COPYRIGHT COMMISSION ASCALATES AS STAFF ...: The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, the Nigerian Copyright Commission unit, an affiliate of Trade Union Congress of Nig...

CRISIS AT COPYRIGHT COMMISSION ASCALATES AS STAFF LOCK OUT DG, AFAM EZEKUDE, ON CHARGES OF MASSIVE EMBEZLEMENT OF FUNDS

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, the Nigerian Copyright Commission unit, an affiliate of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), this Monday began a massive demonstration at the Federal Secretariat Abuja headquarters of the commission as they locked out their Director-General, Mr. Afam Ezekude. The visibly angry placard-carrying staff of the commission with colleagues from TUC and NLC sang repeatedly and danced in a frenzy.

The demonstrators who brought activities to a halt at the sprawling Federal Secretariat complex, repeated their call for the immediate probe, prosecution and imprisonment of Mr. Ezekude.

The Senior Staff Association which says that it has in the recent past petitioned various anti-graft and security agencies in the country including EFCC, DSS and ICPC with irrefutable evidence of the rabid corruption engineered by Mr. Ezekude, proclaimed that their members do not want Ezekude anywhere near the commission again.

The protesting staff said that they have totally lost confidence in the leadership of Mr. Afam Ezekude who according to them has reduced the Nigerian Copyright Commission which is an enforcement agency set up to protect and promote the Nigerian Creative Industry to an agency for the private looting of funds thereby rendering the commission comatose.

According to the union, they have resolved that they can no longer guarantee industrial harmony and peace in the commission except Mr. Ezekude who they say left London as a taxi driver 7 years ago to Nigeria to assume the position of DG, is arrested and prosecuted immediately. The NCC staff vowed that their action will continue until appropriate action is taken against Mr. Ezekude.

MEETING YOU: EFE OMOROGBE’S DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER COSO...

MEETING YOU: EFE OMOROGBE’S DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER COSO...: Despite a court action recently filed by Copyright Society of Nigeria COSON asking EfeOmorogbe, a former member of the COSON Board ...

MEETING YOU: EFE OMOROGBE HUMILIATED AGAIN AS COSON HEAD OF FIN...

MEETING YOU: EFE OMOROGBE HUMILIATED AGAIN AS COSON HEAD OF FIN...: Efe Omorogbe, the very embattled former member of the Board of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) who was recently locked out of COSO...

MEETING YOU: MORE LEGAL WAHALA FOR EFE OMOROGBE AS COSON CHAIRM...

MEETING YOU: MORE LEGAL WAHALA FOR EFE OMOROGBE AS COSON CHAIRM...: True to an earlier statement issued on his behalf, Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Chief Tony Okoroji has filed a suit at...

MEETING YOU: AFAM EZEKUDE MAY GO TO JAIL FOLLOWING MASSIVE CORR...

MEETING YOU: AFAM EZEKUDE MAY GO TO JAIL FOLLOWING MASSIVE CORR...: The association of Senior Civil Servants, the Nigerian Copyright Commission Unit, a division of Trade Union Congress, has issued...

AFAM EZEKUDE MAY GO TO JAIL FOLLOWING MASSIVE CORRUPTION CHARGES..

The association of Senior Civil Servants, the Nigerian Copyright Commission Unit, a division of Trade Union Congress, has issued a public statement asking for Mr Afam Ezekude, Director General NCC to be immediately arrested, prosecuted and sent to jail for massive corruption.

MORE LEGAL WAHALA FOR EFE OMOROGBE AS COSON CHAIRMAN, OKOROJI, SLAMS N212 MILLION LIBEL SUIT AGAINST HIM.

True to an earlier statement issued on his behalf, Chairman, Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Chief Tony Okoroji has filed a suit at the High Court of Lagos State, Ikeja asking for the sum of Two Hundred and Twelve Million Naira for libel against embattled former member of the COSON Board, Mr. Efe Omorogbe.

The suit supported by a 29 paragraph Statement of Claim, several exhibits and witnesses was filed on behalf of Chief Okoroji by Tochukwu Tagbo and Christian Eneje of the Lagos law firm of Commercial Practice Solicitors

In the Statement of Claim, Chief Okoroji pleaded that on January 16, 2018, Mr Omorogbe organised a major press conference at Protea Hotel, Isaac John Street, GRA, Ikeja, which was attended by numerous representatives of the press, widely reported in newspapers and magazines across the country, viewed by millions of people on television and on the internet across the world and that at the conference, Mr. Omorogbe made several defamatory statements against him.

Chief Okoroji also pleaded that Mr Omorogbe caused to be published in City People Magazine dated 31st January 2018, further words defamatory of him and that indeed, Omorogbe further caused to be published in Vanguard Newspaper dated 20th January 2018 other words and statements defamatory of him and that Mr. Omorogbe took active steps to ensure that his devastating words against the Claimant (Chief Okoroji) were widely published, broadcast, posted on several websites on the internet and republished in the press with the intention of doing the most horrendous damage to Chief Okoroji’s good name, character and reputation.

Chief Okoroji also pleaded in the Statement of Claim that in widely publishing the words and statements complained of in the suit, Mr. Omorogbe was actuated by blatant malice as he knew very well that his words and statements are patently false as Omorogbe very well knows that the Claimant is a man of impeccable character and honour and an outstanding Nigerian and that Omorogbe in publishing and/or causing to be published the sordid and reckless words was motivated by the naked desire to destroy the Claimant and usurp the Claimant’s position.

Apart from the damages and cost asked for, Chief Okoroji has also asked for an injunction restraining Efe Omorogbe, his servants or agents or otherwise, from further publishing or broadcasting, or causing to be published or broadcast, the said words or any words similarly defamatory of Chief Okoroji

The suit filed by Chief Okoroji is different from the court action filed by COSON against Mr. Omorogbe.

EFE OMOROGBE HUMILIATED AGAIN AS COSON HEAD OF FINANCE REFUSES HIS ‘GREEK GIFT’

Efe Omorogbe, the very embattled former member of the Board of Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) who was recently locked out of COSON House has just received another huge embarrassment as the COSON Head of Finance & Administration, Ms Bernice Eriemeghe has immediately turned her back at Efe Omorogbe’s desperate directive to Ms Eriemeghe to take over from Mr. Chinedu Chukwuji as General Manager of COSON.
In response to Mr Efe Omorogbe’s directive, Ms Eriemeghe issued the following statement: :
“THANK YOU MR OMOROGBE BUT NO TO YOUR GREEK GIFT
“I have been informed that Mr. Efe Omorogbe and his group have asked me to take over as Acting General Manager of COSON.
“I am a woman of honour and I hereby say ‘No’ to what I consider a Greek gift and a scheme that will result in divide and rule. My colleagues and I in the Management of COSON jointly signed a letter sent to the NCC in which we emphasized our position and informed them that issuing opaque directives to COSON which they know cannot be obeyed will result in chaos in the organization. We have also warned of our massive resignation should they continue to meddle in the internal affairs of the organization which we are capable of resolving. I have no intention of betraying my colleagues.
“Furthermore, I was present at the COSON Extra- Ordinary General Meeting held in COSON Arena on December 19, 2017 when the members of COSON from every part of Nigeria spoke loudly and clearly in one voice that Chief Tony Okoroji should remain as the Chairman among other issues. Please let us all respect the collective will of the majority of the members of COSON that we are all accountable to and represent their interest.
“Mr. Efe Omorogbe is a very good friend of mine but the interest and desires of the members of COSON is most paramount at this point. It is a statement of fact that the members of COSON do not want Mr. Omorogbe as their Chairman at this time. That is clear to me. Anyone trying to force him on the members of COSON does not mean well for COSON as this clearly is capable of destroying the organization.
“For the avoidance of doubt, I will continue to support Mr. Chinedu Angus Chukwuji as General Manager of COSON and Chief Tony Okoroji as Chairman.
“Thank you.
“BERNICE ERIEMEGHE
Head of Finance & Administration”