By Charles Okogene
The above is now playing on the lips of every creative person and stakeholders in Nigeria.
This is squal to the way the duo have been obtaining judgement in their favour. First it was against the all ‘mighty’ Cross River State government over rights abuses as far as the famous Calabar Festival was concerned.
Okoroji and his lawyer, James Ononiwu that has been destroying ‘enemies’
COSON had gone to court to enforce the rights of its members whose creative work was deployed during the festival that held in the city of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, when all negotiaton collapsed intrivably.
On the road to a massive victory in Calabar
First the state lost at a High Court in Calabar, it appealed the judgment at an Appeal Court in the same city and lost again and was ordered to pay a staggering N. 1b.
Hardly has Okoroji and other stakeholders kept their celebration glasses of champagne, has this latest one came. They trumphed in a case brought against COSON by Obi Asika, which Efe Omorogbe, was joined. Others in the case are Mr. Audu Maikori, Mr. Dare Fasasi, Alhaji Sikiru Agbola and Mr. Joel Ajayi, all former members of the COSON Board. They had asked the court to declare that they were still Directors of COSON. All the plaintiffs were removed from the COSON Board by a COSON Extra- Ordinary General Meeting held in December 2017, which restored Chief Okoroji as Chairman of COSON and removed Efe Omorgbe & Co for allegedly plotting and executing a ‘coup’ to topple the Chairman of COSON from his position.
Action against COSON: Omorogbe loses
Earlier, before the two aforementioned cases, same COSON had also won the case it brought against Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC), but chose to be silent on that in other, according to Okoroji, not to further escalate it.
Reacting to the latest victory Okoroji said, “we are patient and lay our facts bare before the court… Omorogbe and co., have put themselves in a lifetime trouble. Omorogbe still has a criminal case of forging COSON documents on his neck.”
The two cases by our findings lasted between 10 and five years to conclude.
