Nigerian musician Popular, Wizkid Ayo Balogun has been charged to court in Uganda for missing his show at a concert in
Kampala.
The concert was scheduled to take place on Saturday, 3rd December 2016,
at
Lugogo Cricket Oval in Kampala.
The arrest warrant states that the musician obtained money by false
pretense, cheating and conspiracy to defraud.
The arrest warrant directs any police officer from the Uganda Police or
Interpol to arrest Wizkid and produce him to court before January 16th,
2017. The arrest order was issued by a Buganda Road chief magistrates court.
The
Ugandan reports that the order for the arrest of Wizkid, born Ayodeji
Ibrahim Balogun, was signed by presiding judge Moses Baligeya Mufumbiro.
The charges against Wizkid were obtaining money by false pretense, cheating and conspiracy to defraud.
The
charges were brought against by lawyers of Muwema co advocates and
solicitors who are counsel to a company called Face TV which is accusing
Wizkid of receiving $60,000 (around N27million) as performance fee for a
show that he never showed up for.
Face TV said after Wizkid’s team agreed to the deal, the company
incurred extra expenses for booking flights and other logistics to the
tune of $300,000 and also sold tickets to 25,000 people for the concert
that eventually did not take place.