By Osagie Alonge
The war between the Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) and the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria (MCSN) hasn’t ended as the legal adviser of the MCSN, Ope Banwo has described Afam Ezekude, DG of the NCC as being ‘vindictive, incompetent and ignorant of the operations of the copyright business in Nigeria’.
Banwo made the statement in response to the NCC’s recent raiding of the MCSN office and detention of five of its staff members.
‘They put in their bulletin that they arrested top shots of the MCSN whereas the people arrested were the secretary, junior accountant and other junior staff, Mr Mayo, the MD of MCSN and Mr Louis, the General Manager weren’t at the office, The fact is that there is no need for such Gestapo tactics in a democracy simply because you don’t like the court judgements MCSN got against your commission’, Banwo said.
He also said he is baffled that ‘the NCC brought 20 policemen with guns’ into the MCSN office.
The MSCN says on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at about 10AM, seven NCC officials led by a Matthew Ojo in company of about 20 armed police officers burst into the their offices and ransacked the whole offices without any search warrant or a court order.
