Afam4eva:
So, you're even a musician.

nyabingi: Some days ago there was news about a certain ex band member of King Sunny Ade who was apprehended with drugs at the Airport. Nairalanders contributed so much on that topic that it got to an extent where some even accused the king of knowing something about the trade
but there is an update from the King himself!!!

King Sunny Ade's ex-guitarist, 62year old Fatoke Abiodun (left) was arrested on Tuesday January 1 2013 at MMIA with 1.575kg of cocaine as he attempted to leave Nigeria. Fatoke said he turned to drugs after he was unceremoniously retired in 2007 without severance pay after playing with KSA for 30 years.

King Sunny Ade has finally reacted, saying his former guitarist was not a member of staff of his company but just a member of his band, who was not entitled to a severance pay.

KSA speaking to the PUNCH said, “I pay salaries to the members of staff of my company. As for my band members, we share money based on what we make at every show where we perform. I would first of all, remove the money for taxes, equipment we used and other stuff connected to the performance. Thereafter, the remaining money is shared among all of us. Before now, I advised my band members that we should have a common purse, where we should leave money for welfare. But they refused and insisted that everything should be shared.

“If he and the others had agreed to my advice then, he wouldn’t have had any reason to say he didn’t get any severance allowance,”

On why he retired Abiodun, KSA says he changes his band members every three years in order to be current and follow the trend.

“But he worked for me for 30 years. Those who have even worked for me for two years are so well off now. How can he say he didn’t have anything after 30 years? Are those there now complaining?
“And to set the records straight, I didn’t sack him, he left on his own. We came back from an international show and he told me he wanted to start his own band and said I should assist him.
“Before I knew what was happening, he went to Ibadan with my guitar without my knowledge in order to start his own band. I told him to return my guitar and when he didn’t, I had to involve the police. That was how he left,” KSA added.
He said he had not seen Abiodun since he left his band in 2007.

“Anybody who is involved in any crime has it in him. It is not proper for anybody to say that it was a condition that led him to a crime. He was among those in the high category in my band. It is surprising that he claimed he had nothing. I have never seen or heard from him since he left my band.

“In the 30 years he worked for me, he never exhibited such criminal attitude. I am always concerned about the people traveling with me. I make sure we all travel light and get whatever we need for the performance in the country we are going.

“I have never seen cocaine. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink and we are always checked thoroughly at the airport here and at the airport over there,” he said.

Source: PUNCH

ogaemma:

Rubish and abuse of labour and neo slavry in another level.
How can a man give you 30 years of his life only for you to tell him he is not a staff of your company and as such he does not deserve any retirement benefit. Some Nigerian employers are wicked e.g, KSA.
I blame the man who threw away 30 years of his life to an ingreat who for 30 years did not see any reason to make him his company staff . What a way of saying goodbye after 30 years of service.
God will judge us.

ogaemma:

Rubish and abuse of labour and neo slavry in another level.
How can a man give you 30 years of his life only for you to tell him he is not a staff of your company and as such he does not deserve any retirement benefit. Some Nigerian employers are wicked e.g, KSA.
I blame the man who threw away 30 years of his life to an ingreat who for 30 years did not see any reason to make him his company staff . What a way of saying goodbye after 30 years of service.
God will judge us.

Jimmy Boy: Firstly, KSA said the man was member of his band and not staff of his company, yet he admitted the mak work for him for 30 years.

datola:

We are not all thieves. You are a thief with so many others!

jhydebaba: We are all thieves, anyone caught is 'barawo'. No one will identify with a criminal.

Jimmy Boy: I have issues with both sides. Firstly, KSA said the man was member of his band and not staff of his company, yet he admitted the mak work for him for 30 years. On the guitarist side, he went all over the globe with KSA and he is still talking of severance package. If he coudlnt achieve anything with what they shared over 30years, how could have succeeded with severance package?

pDude:



Sorry dude, business and sentiment are a bad mix. He wasn't a staff member, and that is it. Moreover he hijacked KSA's guitar to form his own band which was theft.

Remember he had several wives. That means he wasn't poor. He was just trying to play a fast one and make some quick bucks but he was caught. We can't blame KSA for anything.

Jarus: KSA sounds more convincing. And in any case, even maltreatment is never an excuse for crime.

UNLEASHED: So member of staff is different from member of band? Who are the staffs and who are the bands?
I think there's a lot we still don't know about the music industry in Nigeria.

ogaemma:

Rubish and abuse of labour and neo slavry in another level.
How can a man give you 30 years of his life only for you to tell him he is not a staff of your company and as such he does not deserve any retirement benefit. Some Nigerian employers are wicked e.g, KSA.
I blame the man who threw away 30 years of his life to an ingreat who for 30 years did not see any reason to make him his company staff . What a way of saying goodbye after 30 years of service.
God will judge us.

UNLEASHED: So member of staff is different from member of band? Who are the staffs and who are the bands?
I think there's a lot we still don't know about the music industry in Nigeria.

texazzpete:


Why is it so hard for you dolts to understand that a man can be part of the band without being a STAFF MEMBER of any of KSA's companies?

For example, Didier Drogba played for Chelsea for many years. He was never made a permanent member of Chelsea FC or given a place on the board.

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