The current battle between PMAN and Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed is far from over. A new statement by PMAN regarding the on- going fracas insists that PMAN refuses to be bullied and will not stand down until this issues are resolved.
See the full statement below…
The National Executive Working Committee of The Performing Musicians Employers’ Association of Nigeria (PMAN) is deeply disturbed after thorough review of recent interviews granted by the Honorable Minister of information , Alhaji Lai Mohammed, where the Minister stated that he stopped the implementation of the PMAN CREATIVE INDUSTRY BAR CODING PROJECT just because a group of persons approached him and claimed that they were the original PMAN, even though the Minister himself as a lawyer knows that PMAN is United under sole registered TRADEMARK , and no group of persons can parade itself as PMAN without the express permission of the PRETTY OKAFOR led executives, and more so that his Ministry has done nothing wrong by not notifying PMAN of the Ministry’s abrupt change of plan after PMAN had already submitted the Projects BLUEPRINT to the Ministry of information and the Ministry had also announced its partnership with PMAN at a World Press Briefing held at the Ministry of information Office in Abuja on August 12, 2016.
The Minister’s claim that he backed away from his initial commitment to the PMAN proposed Initiative because some people came to him claiming they were the original PMAN is ridiculous, and we are confident that the Minister and the Ministry of Information do not have any official records to back such claims and neither was there a petition written to the Honorable Minister by the invisible” PMAN” perpetrators .
The Minister’s only defense against PMAN’s copyright infringement allegations is FRIVOLOUS, and the Ministers inexplicable FIRE BRIGADE approach as recently displayed during implementation of Projects designed for the Creative Industry is a “RECIPE FOR DISASTER ” Moreover, the Minister stated that an advertising agency, anonymously brought a similar proposal to the Ministry of Information, however, PMAN’s legal team is currently investigating how a certain “THINK TANK MEDIA” got hold of PMAN’s CREATIVE INDUSTRY BARCODING PROJECT Proposal submitted in confidence to the MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, as the Agency has inadvertently confirmed publicly on published Propaganda posts , that its own proposal to the Ministry is entirely different from PMAN’s proposal to the Ministry, this is veryquestionable, how did this Agency have access to PMAN’S Proposals and its content remain a mystery to PMAN.
