The biggest news in Nigeria entertainment industry right now is the arrest of former EME Records act Skales and his manager Osagie by his record label, Baseline Records.
However the arrest was based on a petition that bordered on the issues of fraud and circumvention of funds that were supposed to go to the record label.
Though we feel bad for Skales because report said it that for his him to terminate his contract with Baseline Records, he need to pay N5 Billion in order for him to walk out of the contract.
The question in the lips of everybody right now is what’s way forward for Skales? How could he paid the money owes the company.
Here are some suggestion for him.
Take a loan from Aliko Dangote
Prostrate & beg Mr. CEO of the label
Go back to his village in Kaduna
But the only way out is Festus Keyamo.
Who’s Festus Keyamo
Festus Keyamo is Lagos based human right activist lawyer, he started his legal career in 1993 with Gani Fawehinmi‘s Chambers in Lagos State, after spending two years at Gani Fawehinmi‘s chambers, he left to established his Festus Keyamo Chambers.
Festus has handle several cases such as Niger-Delta Peoples’ Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari in his trial for treasonable felony and lead counsel in the treason trial of Ralph Uwazuruike, the leader of the Movement For The Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).Keyamo was also a counsel in the murder of Bola Ige.
In 2008, he took the Federal Government of Nigeria to court over illegal appointments of service chiefs. He’s currently lawyer to Nigeria Football Federal on case between Amaju Pinnick and Chris Giwa saga.
Though Nigeria music industry had recorded breach of contract saga in the past such as Kennis Music & Kelly Handsome, Chocolate City & Brymo, YSG & Vector, and the recent like HF Music & DJ Zeez and Eric Many & Runtown, though all of them failed to win their legal case with their respective label.
What Skales need now is to get good lawyer like Festus Keyamo in order for him to further his music career.
Festus Keyamo is the Fixer and Only Way out for Skales