Nigeria Music Singer Mercy Chinwo has allegedly reneged on the Record Label and Management Contract with her Label, EeZe Conceptz Limited and maliciously presented falsehoods to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against the Label’s Founder, Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu.
Addressing Journalists in Owerri, Maxwell Okpara, one of the Lawyers to the Label and its Founder expressed that Mercy Chinwo signed a Label and Artist Management Contract for a five year term beginning from 2017 to 2022.
According to Okpara, the contract covers amongst other things, Ownership of the Catalogue and splits of all Royalties derived from the exploitation of Music Catalogue developed, financed and promoted by the Record Label. The Label was to invest and produce 3 Albums which it would own in Perpetuity but account to Mercy Chinwo in royalties.
Okpara stated that whilst the contract was still in effect, and after the Label had spent hundreds of Millions of Naira on her career, Mercy Chinwo refused to honor the terms of the Contract and started directly engaging in Performances and Recordings without informing the Label, in direct contravention of her Agreement.
Despite several attempts by the Label to amicably resolve the issue between it and Mercy Chinwo, the gospel minister rather chose to concoct lies, malicious falsehood and criminal misrepresentations to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to weaponize it against the Label’s Founder, alleging theft and misappropriation of funds, when she was indeed the Party in flagrant breach of her Contract, procuring commercial performances and releasing new music without the consent of the Label. It quickly became clear that what Mercy Chinwo was after was to use sheer brute force to claim ownership of the Music Catalogue fully financed and promoted by the Label for herself.
This led to a Nine-day detention of the Label Boss, from ___16__ April to ___25___ April 2024 by the EFCC Ilorin branch.
Mercy Chinwo, brazenly supported by some supposed Men of God, ensured that Mr. Ezekiel ONYEDIKACHUKWU was harassed, questioned, had a lien effected on all his bank accounts, during which the Commission carried out extensive audit of his bank accounts and FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING.
Not satisfied with her failed attempt to wrongfully hijack the Music Catalogue for herself, Mercy Chinwo again started using her influence within the Commission to harrass the Label Boss. He was invited to the Commission’s office on December 2024, an invitation which he honored at the Commission’s office. It therefore came as a rude shock for the same Commission to claim that Mr Ezekiel had not been located and procured an Exparte warrant of arrest on him. These schemes are targeted to malign the Label and its Founder and they will be very firmly resisted within the ambit of the Law.
“To prevent the continued perversion of Justice, We hereby challenge Mercy Chinwo, her lawyers and the Commission to a fair, public review of her Agreement and all the activities by both Parties, to determine who indeed is the bully in this matter and who is being taken advantage of” the Lawyer Stated