Gospel singer Celestine Donkor has sued Rev. Asanteman Obofour over the preacher using her song, ‘Agbebolo’, without her permission.
Obofour used the song to promote his 31st night service last year without any permission from Celestine or her management, the copyright holders.
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Taking to social media, Celestine’s husband and manager, Kofi Donkor, revealed they had tried to solve the issue amicably but Obofour refused to listen to reason.
So at this point, they have no choice but to take the issue to court.
Read Kofi Donkor’s post on the issue below…
Dear Rev Obofour,
I write to you not as one of your followers and a beneficiary of your ‘generosity’ but as the executive producer of the song you used to promote your 31st December watch night service WITHOUT permission.
When the police investigator and myself met you in your Achimota office you claimed you were promoting the song and that you have a very large following but sadly you said you have never heard a name Celestine Donkor before. I am surprise at how you can promote a person you don’t know exists but granted.
My team did everything to get you to put on your sense of reasoning but like you got one of your subordinates to tell Akwasi Aboagye on Peace fm when this issue first broke in November, “we can go to hell”.
We are not going to ‘hell’ but we are going to the courts to seek justice. Just so you know, we have a date on Wednesday. But this time it is an order for you to appear before the Criminal Court. This is just for the commencement of the Criminal aspect of your unlawful act. Also note that the Civil suit will soon commence.
We did everything to get you to address this illegality but you know we are nobodies and so you retreated us with gross disrespect. Justice will prevail. Like they say “the wheel of justice grind slowly”, We shall surly have Justice!
See you in court Sir.
Source: GhanaCelebrities.Com