Land tussle: PMAN urges FG, IGP to wade in

The Performing Musician Association of Nigeria (PMAN) has sought the support of the Federal Government and the Inspector General of Police to wade in into the association’s land tussle case of monumental fraud, stealing, forgery and criminal conversion of PMAN landed property in Abuja against Mr. Tee Mac and his cohorts.

According to the PMAN president, Mr. Pretty Okafor, the Performing Musicians Employers’ Association of Nigeria otherwise known as “PMAN “as registered under the Trade Union’s Act of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was allocated a parcel of land measuring more than 8 hecters for the purpose of developing a modern day music and entertainment complex in Abuja by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 1992 and thereafter, reallocated between 1999 and 2003. While arrangements were being made to develop the place in accordance with the original plan, Mr. Tee Mac Omatshola Itseli in 2010, clandestinely went to the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and registered ”Performing Musician Association of Nigeria- using the same acronym (PMAN), with which he deceived the FCT authorities that granted him a certificate of occupancy of the said land.

Meanwhile, the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, has set up a high powered investigation into the matter, by inviting all those involved in the issue to come and say what they know.

With this development, it is hoped that the association albeit, the Industry will soon heave a sigh of relief as the cause of the perennial crisis of the body will soon be over.

To underscore the significance of this development, PMAN shall very soon use its strengths and energy to carry out such tasks that will spell well for the country through restructuring and repositioning the practice standard of the industry to conform to the International ones as obtained in Europe, America and Asia which positively impacts on the economies of such countries.