King Sunny Ade's ex-guitarist, 62year old Fatoke Abiodun (left)
was arrested on Tuesday January 1 2013 at MMIA with 1.575kg of cocaine
as he attempted to leave Nigeria. Fatoke said he turned to drugs after
he was unceremoniously retired in 2007 without severance pay after
playing with KSA for 30 years. King Sunny Ade has finally reacted,
saying his former guitarist was not a member of staff of his company but
just a member of his band, who was not entitled to a severance pay.
What he told Punch below...
“I pay salaries to the
members of staff of my company. As for my band members, we share money
based on what we make at every show where we perform. I would first of
all, remove the money for taxes, equipment we used and other stuff
connected to the performance. Thereafter, the remaining money is shared
among all of us. Before now, I advised my band members that we should
have a common purse, where we should leave money for welfare. But they
refused and insisted that everything should be shared.
If he and the others had
agreed to my advice then, he wouldn’t have had any reason to say he
didn’t get any severance allowance,”
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