“I am aware that the rapid success of COSON has dazzled many. The facts are that we surprised many people at the speed and dexterity with which we brought together thousands of creative people, assembled millions of works, both local and international, thereby creating a breath-taking repertoire and library. We built and equipped the magnificent COSON House with the most modern technology without borrowing ‘shi-shi’ and set up a management team of well-trained accountants, lawyers, copyright experts, statisticians and other world class professionals.
“Because of the vicious nature of the Nigerian socio-political environment, our success became our albatross. COSON, seen as an incredible Nigerian success story, began to attract envy and the usual Nigerian ‘bad-belle’. Some top officers of the Nigerian government were told that COSON is a gold mine. So, they began to work assiduously with some fraudsters within our industry to appropriate the organization for themselves and their friends. Determined to make COSON their private ATM, they twisted and mutilated the law, turned it upside down and started issuing instructions to COSON as if COSON is a government department”.
