The war started when Freeze took to
Instagram to call out Kiibati asking her to pay him for his services he
rendered at the Merrybet Sports Challenge show that held last year.
Kiibati also took to Instagram to
respond to Freeze’s claims saying she is disappointed in him for attacking her
on social media but she refuses to be bullied.
"Dear Mr. Freeze,
I have tried to steer clear of your
endless attempts at cyber bullying and casting aspersions at my image, but your
most recent rants have left me no choice but to respond to your allegations.
My friends know that unlike you, I
do not engage in attention seeking stunts online or laundering my linen in
public.
I am a very private person, with a
very small but closely knit circle of friends.
I find your decision to take to
social media to spout your allegations highly disappointing, considering your
age (I assume you are close to 50 and are considered an ‘egbon’), and that you
have both my phone numbers, know where my studio/office is and are in touch
with many of our mutual colleagues in the broadcast industry.
Now, you made some allegations that
are ridiculous and blatantly false:
The
first was that I BEGGED you to ‘help me out’ by participating at my event-
Celebrity FC on the 3rd of December.
Now
that claim is ridiculous
First
of all, at the event, we had superstars like Olamide, (2Baba) Idibia, Awilo
Longomba, Falz TheBahdGuy, Burna Boy, Peter of P Square, Humblesmith, just to
name a few.
The
event had over 30 of Nigeria’s most beloved celebrities come together in the
name of the beautiful game- football, and no disrespect intended Sir, but you
do not match up to any of those guys in name or stature.
I
contacted you to ask you to help me invite your friend DJ Exclusive to the
event, who we know is a staunch Manchester United fan and loved by many.
While
bargaining with you on his appearance fee, you gave me the condition that I
must invite you as well. We had no plans to invite you because you did not fit
the profile of the calibre of celebrities we invite.
You
however insisted and charged me the sum of N900,000 for you and DJ Exclusive to
split. I found that odd, but felt I had no choice, since I really wanted
Exclusive at the event.
You
asked me to send you a text message with the offer for you to show DJ Exclusive
which I did.
To
spice up the deal, you offered to promote the event for two weeks on your show
on Cool FM and asked me to send you a media partnership proposal which I did.
Following
our conversation on phone, I presented our discussion to my team, who expressed
dissatisfaction and said they did not want you at the show, but Exclusive alone.
They said you do not match up to the celebrities coming for the show and said
we should instead invite your colleague Dotun who will attract the hip, young
urban crowd in Lagos to the event.
I
did not know how to tell you this as I did not want to hurt your feelings.
I
told them about your offer to promote the event for free, which softened their
stance a little, but did not totally convince them.
FYI,
all the celebrities that came for the event were given official invitation
letters/MOUs either physically or by email and were paid at least 2 or 3 months
to the event, except for last minute additions.
You
eventually told me that the management of Cool FM denied your request to run
the promo of the event on your show, which left my team with no choice but to
decide to dis-invite you, as they saw no justification for paying you to attend
the event without getting any value from you.
According
to them, no one will purchase a ticket to a concert to watch Freeze.
I
thought this was harsh, and couldn’t figure out how to break the news to you,
so I kept coming up with ways to buy time, hoping you would take the hint by my
refusal to pick your calls atimes. But you eventually helped me out when you
told my people a week to the show that DJ Exclusive was pulling out.
This
came as a bit of relief to us and my team told you not to bother to come
anymore as Exclusive was supposed to be your partner at the show.
After
my team asked you not to come, you began to harass and stalk my phone, calling
me endlessly, but I couldn’t pick your calls and asked my managers to speak with
you. I couldn’t pick your calls because I was the host of the show and had to
focus on rehearsing for the event with my co-host Seyilaw. I was losing my
voice and my team insisted that I stay off the phone to save my voice and
energy.
So,
you were told not to come for the show, but imagine my shock when on the day of
the event, I came down to the celebrity lounge backstage and saw you.
You
came along to the event with an actor we hadn’t invited. You were drinking all
kinds of Spirits began harassing the stage manager to let you go on stage and
play.
The
stage manager concluded by your harassment that you were just being a
passionate football fan and eventually let you go on stage to play with the
celebrity friend you brought to the event.
At
no point did I ‘contract’ you to be at the show as you have widely claimed,
unless the word ‘contract’ has taken on a different meaning.
The
second false claim you made was that you tried to call me for a month and I
wasn’t picking your calls.
This
Sir is a blatant lie (or ‘alternative fact’ as Kellyanne Conway would say), as
I travelled out of the country soon after the event and was away in Dubai for
the Christmas and New year holidays and my phones were unreachable. My
instagram posts in this period confirm this.
I
took the break to recuperate after the event and regain my mental and physical
strength.
I
was away for over 3 weeks, so you couldn’t have been calling me all this while,
as you claim.
As
soon as I landed after my trip, you began to call my phone. You called me two
or three times, and I didn’t pick your calls because I was still settling down,
following my trip; but imagine my surprise when two days later you took to
instagram to attack me.
You
did not send me a single text, email, direct message on Twitter or Instagram or
reach out to me via members of my team but instead chose the cowardly way out
with your subtle blackmail and cyber bullying.
I
understand that there is a recession in Nigeria at the moment and you may have
been broke and desperate for some cash, but as a friend, I would have helped
you with some cash if you had just done the decent thing by reaching out to me
via text or by being patient for me to return your calls, which I would have
after I settled down from my trip.
This,
as you know, was not my first time dealing with you. I have paid you a lot of
cash in the past for different promos on Cool FM. You can recall that I paid
you N300,000 regularly sometime in 2015 to promote some kid artists on your
show. I can tender my account statements as proof of this.
Your
social media antics however, are a declaration of war and put an end to any attempt
at friendship with you.
Please
Sir, stop your cowardly attempts at cyber bullying me or harassing my clients
Merrybet- the most reputable sports betting firm in Nigeria and address your
alleged grievances via the appropriate legal channels.
I
don’t want to believe that you cannot afford a lawyer Sir.
Please
stop your cowardly attacks and take up whatever issues you believe you have
against me in court or with the appropriate authorities and desist from your
public attacks.
However,
Freeze has also come out to respond to Kiibati. Insisting that not only did she
beg him to come for the show, he also has appropriate evidence to show.
"How
come you were begging me to confirm that I would work with you and still
begging me, less than two weeks to the event, to bear with you as you will pay
N500k, which you never did, and you never called or texted me to cancel off my
appearance?
You
obviously have been doing this for a while so it’s in your DNA, do you know how
many people I have met randomly, who told me that this very typical of you?
The
last time I did business with you, it took almost a year to get my complete
payment. But like they say that one na story for the gods.
Obviously,
you are not very versed when it comes to contracts, if perhaps you were, you
won’t make unintelligent statements like “the stage manager concluded by your
harassment that you were just being a passionate football fan and eventually
let you go on stage with the celebrity friend you brought to the event”.
If
the stage manager just put me on stage as you claim in your ‘body of lies’, how
come there is an email from you, involving the other party and I, just before
we went on stage, with the ‘orijo’ of the questions we would be asked?
We
had a contractual agreement, I could be sued for not showing up, and you will
be, for not paying me, as there is no history of you at anytime calling off our
agreement, verbally or through phone calls, texts or emails.
This
would serve as a deterrent not just to you, but all other OAPs and celebrities.
If
you choose for any reason, not to honour a contract, there are ways to go about
it. You can’t just decide not to show up, or not to pay for services, coming up
with dodgy excuses and lies.
Kiibati,
I’m not broke, this has nothing to do with money, it’s the flaws in your
character that I am bringing to light. ~FRZ.
Attached
are copies of our correspondence, up until the day of the event, via email and
text messages.
P.S.
Kiibati, I noticed at a point, that you were trying to wriggle your way into
the coolwazobiainfo sports team, after a while you were told to stop coming,
does this have anything to do with this your ‘character’?"
Still
not done, Kiibati responded that yes she acknowledged all the evidence that
Freeze presented. But since he wasn’t paid, that is enough for him to know that
his services were not needed.
“Dear
Mr. Freeze,
As
I said in my posts earlier, you were disinvited from the show a week to the
event after DJ Exclusive pulled out.
I
acknowledged that I sent you a text to show the original offer to Exclusive.
I
also acknowledged that I applied different delaying antics to avoid hurting
your feeling, hoping you would take the hint.
If
you were offered 500k upfront and weren’t paid, why show up for the event, if
not out of desperation.
You
were accorded all respect as an ‘egbon’ and my text expressed that.
As
I said earlier, I am not interested in your cyber bullying antics or back and
forth banter with you.
Address
the matter via the proper legal channels.
Thank
you.”
As
the matter unfolds, be sure that we will bring you details.
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