Gospel musician, Patience Nyarko has threatened to take legal action against the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for using her song as a campaign anthem without her permission.
The gospel songstress, speaking to Kwame Adjetia on Neat FM's "Entertainment Ghana", stated that the NPP, in their National Delegates Congress at Koforidua in the Eastern Region last year, played her popular gospel song "Obi Nyani Me" throughout the congress .
She added that the party declared her song as official song for the party without notifying her or consulting her management for authorization from her management to either use the song or not.
She however disclosed that her management has petitioned the General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu, the Chief of Staff and other appropriate authorities within the party to ensure the right thing is done.
When asked if there any monetary terms between her and the party, Patience Nyarko declined to tell whether there was any amount involved in their deal but stated emphatically that if the NPP continues to use her song without meeting the terms and conditions by her management, she will proceed to court and sue the party for unlawfully take her song.
“My song that they’ve taken and declared as official song for their programme is like me buying a land at East Legon and they’ve taken without my notice…Taking somebody’s property and declaring it as an official song without telling the owner is an offence.
"If they use the song without honoring our demands, then I will definitely resort to the court...I am not an NPP member. I am a Ghanaian. I am fighting for my right”, she stressed.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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I think they should stop playing her song and see if it will sell. I don't understand some people. Perhaps she doesn't know how much she will miss.
You think the fact that a song is played several times at a Congress makes it an Official Party song? You may have to sue most churches.
The song is nice but the video of the song makes ***barred word*** of everything Koo Fori got up only to realized that all the good things he enjoyed was just a dream and not reality. Is that what NPP wants winning 2020 election in a dream and losing it in reality? If that is what they want they should go ahead and use it as a campaign song till they come to terms that it is just a dream and not real
Patience, my advice to you is to leave NPP alone because I am sure the party using your song rather made the song popular for people to like it because it enjoyed wider playing time. She should take note of Kofi Kinata whose song Chocho mucho had only 5,000 viewers, but shot up to 800,000 viewers after his song was copyrighted and placed on UTube by two ladies singing it in a car. He Kofi Kinata has even gone ahead to praise the two ladies who did it and it had helped the song to be popular. Is Patience saying she is going to sue the radio stations that play her songs or those who play her songs in their cars, bars, discos, jam sessions on the streets, etc? After a musician produces a song, the CDs are given to distributors and the distributors give them to agents to sell them in open market. After the CDs are sold the producer has no control over how they are used. Whoever buys it can choose to play it anywhere he chooses. In view of this, she should even thank God that her song has been popular.
SHAMEFUL WOMAN FIGHTING BECAUSE THE POLITICAL PARTY PLAYED HER SONG
MADAM NYARKO, FORGET AND FORGIVE FOR YOUR FUTURE. BUT LAY YOUR REPORT TO JOHN BOADU BECAUSE HE IS RESPECFUL PERSON IN THE PARTY.