In a assertion by means of the chairman of MCSN, Oritz Williki, the disbursement of the fund which is aimed toward supporting individuals cushion the impact of COVID-19 has been tagged illegal.
The MCSN additionally burdened that the operations of COSON have been declared illegal through a regulation court, hence, the want to stop performing and disbursing budget.
MCSN in addition described the circulate as a grand plan to deflate and loot property which can had been acquired inside the name of COSON.
“It has come to the attention of the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Ltd/Gte (MCSN) the announcement made by using Chief Tony Okoroji of his choice on the behest of the extinct organisation, Copyright Society of Nigeria Limited with the aid of Guarantee (COSON), to percentage the sum of Fifty Million Naira (N50,000,000.00) to musicians on its sign up to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown on them.
“Ordinarily, this will have been a completely laudable and commendable gesture however for a organisation which a courtroom of equipped jurisdiction has declared illegal and with other pending actions bothering on responsibility striking on the defunct enterprise and its managers; the goal and action scent of serious illegitimacy and criminal activity.
“MCSN sees this as nothing brief of a grand plan to deflate and loot anything assets that can were received inside the name of the extinct corporation, COSON,” the assertion study in element.
The MCSN and COSON had been at loggerheads over the collection of copyright works of Nigerian musicians, who're participants underneath it. Each of the collective management organisations has claimed to be the felony employer saddled with the collection of royalties on behalf of the music acts.
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