By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON)
The
current President of the Makeni Artist Union – (MAU), Milton Franklyn Koroma
alias Stuntman who doubles as a multitalented Song writer and producer has on
Sunday, July 5, 2020 discharged self centred Disc Jockeys and other imposters attempting
and meddling into the affairs of the union with selfish intentions geared
towards bringing disrepute into the unification process and affairs of the
elite group which has over the years posed threats to the smooth running, he stressed.
He
said this on a local network in Makeni few days after some embattled Executive
Members of the Union and some DJs took to a low key media campaign against his
leadership, whose tenure of office they claimed have elapsed since July 1st
this year but that he is still tight lipped about announcing a date for another
election since he was elected some two years ago.
In an
interview with Northern Times, the MAU President, Stuntman referred to the said
claim as a fallacy and made referenced to
Article II, Subsection XII under the Aims and Objective of the Makeni Artists Union Constitution which
he said is:
“To foster unity amongst
Artists, DJs, Facilitators, Promoters, and Cassette Sellers.” DJs,
Promoters, Facilitators among others are our partners but not members of our
union,
he stressed.
When asked
about his plans to announce a date for another election since he was voted and
later inaugurated on July 28, 2018, the Eclectic Thatcher Soloist said he is
planning to stage an executive meeting with his membership a week before his
two years tenure as president of the union elapse on the 28th July,
2020 and a week after will sermon another meeting with the Founders (Elders) of
the Union to come up with statement on the way forward as a result of the novel
corona virus which has led to a government decision which places a ban on
public gathering of more than 35 people.
Koroma’s
latest reaction broke out few months after some of his embattled executive
members resigned.
The Multi-talented
Singer, Samuel Yusuf Tarawalie aka Governor Blaq, the current NAS President,
who is tipped as the main opposition and is also intending to run for the
union’s presidency for the second time since he was defeated in the 2018 MAU
Elections is seemingly calm but remains very affirmative that he was bullied by
some stakeholders of the Makeni municipality previously but cannot be bullied
for a second time while chasing his dream post.
Attempts
from this writer to reach some of the said “Self-Centred DJs and other members
of the Union remained unsuccessful.
But a
large number of music followers in Makeni have expressed several an outcries among
which cautions MAU and all fragmented groups to regroup as a visionary entity
which will serve as the solution to mark the much needed urgent redress amongst
members and partners of the influential Artist union.
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