Young Artist to take legal action over Equity wings to fly song

 

An upcoming artist is said to have sued Equity to block them from using the  Wings to Fly Song.

Have a look at the narration of the background story   as revealed on a series of tweets online.

I was upcoming artist and still is. In 2013 while i was 16 years  my manager secured a “contract” with equity bank to produce a song to be used in their Wings to Fly programme. I produced the song and presented to equity bank.

During this process I was in contact with several managers from the communications department and also got a chance to meet with the CEO Dr. Mwangi.

After meeting with the CEO I was sent to the Communications manager  by his secretary where I was to sing a contract for the copyrights of the song, a contract worth 10Million .

Being a minor I could not legally sign a contract, so I was asked to return the next day with my parent to countersign the contact. That same evening after my meeting with the managers , i received a call from a representative of equity bank by the name Mary Njoki who asked me to check my email for a document that she had sent and i was asked not to come for the meeting as agreed.

She also told me that a contract would be sent to me in a few days but since my fan base was not big enough the contract amount had been reduced to 2.5M . The scanned document that was attached to the email had a number of discrepancies and made no sense. At this time I was still in high school. FORM 2.

When all this started my brother decided to follow up the matter. He was invited to a boardroom meeting where all the four communication managers were present, the environment was very hostile. All the managers claimed that although they knew me, they were only mentoring me.

One manager claims, in his statement, that i  approached him in his office, forced him to listen to a CD with songs that I wanted equity bank to produce and market. During the meeting my brother was asked if he believed that the managers were only mentors.

when he openly said he did not believe them, the senior communications manager instructed the head of security to escort him to the basement and hold HIM there until I produced the source of the document, yet he was only inquiring why the document had discrepancies.

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