Wednesday 2 January 2013

Iyanya and Manager Ubi Franklin in Police Trouble Over N1.7 million Performance Fee



            Iyanya and Manager Ubi Franklin  in Police Trouble Over N1.7 million Performance Fee
Iyanya and his manager, Ubi Franklin, are trying to negotiate themselves out of police trouble. The Police in Port Harcourt are on the trail of the duo, after they received the sum of N1.7 million from popular show organiser, Opa Williams. The fee was for Iyanya to perform at two Nite of a Thousand Laughter shows in Port Harcourt and Benin.
According to reports, Iyanya missed both shows, even after travelling to Port Harcourt, along with rapperOlamide and comedian Bovi, on a flight paid for by the organisers.
On Wednesday morning, policemen from the Mile 3 division invited both Iyanya and Franklin over the issue, which had be lodged by Opa Williams.
Ubi confirmed that he made himself available at the station. “Yes I was at the Police Station this morning, we have decided to return all money paid to us, it’s not a problem
He also gave his own account of what really happened.
We were paid to attend and perform at the Benin and Port Harcourt shows but we missed both due to reasons beyond our control. We missed the Benin gig because we were in Ghana as at that time and we arrived pretty late for the PH gig. We however had issues with initial payment from the show organizers also.

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