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American rapper, Rick Ross, who was threatened with a lawsuit by the Cross River State government for failing to turn up to perform at last year’s edition of the state’s annual Carnival Calabar has played into the hands of the state with his arrival in the country yesterday to headline Summer Jam Fest scheduled to hold at the Eko Hotel and Suites yesterday. Ross was supposed to arrive Thursday night but arrived yesterday mid-day. All the same, the police were waiting for him and they moved into action immediately he was confirmed to be in the country The police action was at the instance of the Cross River State government, which alleges that Ross refused to perform despite paying him $200,000 as agreed.
Naijahottestgist reliably learnt that the efforts of policemen from the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) in Lagos to arrest the rapper affected the commencement of Summer Jam Fest as Ross couldn’t come down from his hotel room.
He was afraid that his arrest would be effected if he did and he would be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) based on a petition being acted on by a lawyer for the Cross River State government,one of the key guys Among the Organisers promptly contacted Sen Ita Giwa who put a call to Cross River Governor Sen Imoke who agreed the police should not Arrest him but instead he made an Undertaking Guaranteed by the American Embassy on how he will refund the state 200,000 dollars.
If they only consider us humans enough to grant us this privilege in the US, I think he shouldn’t have been spared because the act we are talking here is criminal, deliberate attempt to defraud a state in Nigeria which was perhaps occasioned by the impression of ‘everything goes in Nigeria’ which they hold of us.