{"id":328493,"date":"2017-06-15T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328493"},"modified":"2017-06-15T07:23:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T07:23:20","slug":"legal-counsel-of-krobo-youth-serves-ultimatum-to-kurl-songx-sarkodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328493","title":{"rendered":"Legal Counsel of Krobo Youth serves ultimatum to Kurl Songx, Sarkodie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kloma Hengme, a Krobo youth group has served Kurl Songx, owner of the \u2018Jennifer Lomotey\u2019 banger a letter for using denigrating words against Krobo women in the song, Citi Showbiz<\/strong> has gathered.<\/p>\n

The letter signed by their lawyer Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua (Dr) Solicitor and Barrister-at-Law, was presented to David Kojo Kyei aka Kaywa, the manager of the artiste on Wednesday, 14th<\/sup> June, 2017.<\/p>\n

This comes few days after they had released a press statement asking the owners of the song to edit out the derogatory phrase against Krobo women and apologise.<\/p>\n

In the song that features rap \u2018King\u2019 Sarkodie, he raps:\u00a0\u201cKr\u0254b\u0254 nii baa papa a ahwene\u025b da ne sisi. \u0186k\u0254mfo An\u0254kye de adwaman no ab\u0254 ne dua.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>This literally translates as \u201cA good Krobo lady with beads around her waist. Okomfo Anokye has cursed her with promiscuity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Okomfo Anokye is great priest of the Ashanti Kingdom who is believed to have cursed Krobo women with promiscuity.<\/p>\n

\u2018History\u2019 has it that some Krobo girls were cursed by Okomfo Anokye with promiscuity because they had seen his nakedness when he was bathing by the riverside.<\/p>\n

In the letter, Kloma Hengme makes these demands:<\/p>\n

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  1. Issue an immediate order to the relevant media houses asking them to halt playing the \u201cJennifer Lomotey\u201d song on their airwaves;<\/li>\n
  2. Expunge or cause to be expunged the portion of the lyrics which my clients find offensive and defamatory or completely ban the use of that song from the airwaves;<\/li>\n
  3. Expunge or cause to be expunged all audio and video clips of the song which are found on various social media platforms that are registered in your name;<\/li>\n
  4. Write an unreserved apology to the Chiefs and people of the Krobo Traditional Area, including a statement to the effect that such an offensive act will not be repeated against the Krobo people;<\/li>\n
  5. Make a statement to the general public advising them to desist from transferring or sharing the song which contains the offensive lyrics with anybody else; and,<\/li>\n
  6. For denting the image of the Krobo people and dragging their hard earned reputation in the mud, pay a compensation of two million Ghana cedis (GHS2,000,000) to the Krobo people.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    They added that failure for the owners of the song to respond to these demands WITHIN A WEEK of receipt of this letter will result in legal action being taken against them without further notice.<\/p>\n

    Attempts to get Kaywa to speak to the issue proved abortive.<\/p>\n

    Read the full letter below:<\/p>\n

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    By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Kloma Hengme, a Krobo youth group has served Kurl Songx, owner of the \u2018Jennifer Lomotey\u2019 banger a letter for using denigrating words against Krobo women in the song, Citi Showbiz has gathered. The letter signed by their lawyer Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua (Dr) Solicitor and Barrister-at-Law, was presented to David Kojo Kyei aka Kaywa, the manager of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[3,8207,8208],"class_list":["post-328493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-ghana-news","tag-krobo-odumase","tag-legal-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}