Checkout the full story of this Nigeria singer(SKALES,)

Just this morning news came in that Manager
of Skales, Osagie Osarenkhoe also known as
This Metal Chic, has been accused of fraud
by Baseline Records, home to Skales and
Aramide.

Osagie, currently managing Skales, has been
accused by the record label of stealing the
sum of N13,374,000 in the past 12 months.
The record label has released a lengthy
petition addressed to the Inspector General of
Police and right now Osagie is at the Police
Station as they try to sort things out.
The petition reads in part:
“On the 11th of July, 2014 the company
entered into an Artiste and Record Company
Multiple Right Agreement (the “Contract”)
between itself and Raoul Njeng Njeng (also
known as Skales) for the provision by Skales
of exclusive recording services to the
Company for a period of 5 (five) years.
Under the terms of the Contract, Skales
assigned to the company all copyright and
other rights or interests throughout the world
in all sound recordings made by Skales prior
to or during the term of the Contract.

The
Contract further provided that the Company
shall be entitled to 70% (seventy percent) of
the gross receipts received by Skales from
performance and tours and brand
endorsements during the term of the
Contract.
Skales introduced Teresa Osagioduwa
Osarenkhoe to the Company as his manager
and stated her duties to include inter alia
tour bookings, strategy and promotion. In
order to avoid a situation where accounts
will be disputed, the Company set in place a
procedure for the remittance of monies
received from performances, tours and brand
endorsements involving Skales. The
procedure implemented at the beginning of
the Contract was the payment of all monies
received in pursuance of performances and
endorsements into the Baseline account,
whereupon the 30% due to Skales would be
transferred to his (Skales’) account after the
deduction of expenses.

 The above procedure
was implemented at the beginning of the
Contract and monies were remitted in the
manner stated above.

 The Company however
noticed that rather than remit monies to the
Company account as agreed, Teresa
Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe falsely dictated to
event promoters that monies were to be paid
to her personal accounts.

In all the circumstances where monies were
paid to Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe’s
personal accounts, these monies were never
repaid to the Company.

The Company noticed that although Skales
was listed as performing at various concerts,
shows, tours and other events, none of the
monies received from these events was
remitted to the Company. In this regard, the
Company invited Skales and his manager
Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe to various
meetings seeking an account and a
reconciliation.

At these meetings, both Skales
and his manager Teresa Osagioduwa
Osarenkhoe insisted that the events in
question were not paid events and as such
there were no monies to remit. These
dubious activities continued for a period of
12 (twelve) months wherein the Company
was fraudulently deprived of its legitimate
earnings by the said Teresa Osagioduwa
Osarenkhoe as payments made for
performances were paid directly into her
account in violation of the procedure set up
for payments at the beginning of the
Contract.
The Company in March of 2016
decided to catalogue some of the paid shows,
performances, concerts and tours wherein
Skales performed and the monies were
fraudulently converted for personal use by
the said Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe.
By the Company’s estimation, from the
aforementioned events, Teresa Osagioduwa
Osarenkhoe has fraudulently converted the
sum of N7,474,000 from this brief period
without accounting to the Company or
making payments first into the Company’s
accounts as stipulated in the Contract.

This is
without factoring all the other performances,
tours and shows where no remittance was
made from the period January 2015 to April
2016.

In order to properly document this fraud and
catch Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe in the
act of theft, the Company created an email
address, and sent an email to Teresa
Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe requesting the
performance of Skales at an event in
California on the 2nd June, 2016. In the
email communication, Teresa Osagioduwa
Osarenkhoe requested the sum of $5,000
(five thousand US dollars) for the
performance as well as one business class
ticket, one economy class ticket and two hotel
rooms in a 4-star hotel. (please find enclosed
herewith the email communication between
Skales and Femi George with respect to the
said performance) On 18th May, 2016 the
first tranche of $2,500 (two thousand five
hundred US dollars) representing 50% (fifty
percent) of the performance fee demanded
by Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe was
wired.

The Company in 2015 entered into an
agreement with Upfront and Personal, for the
engagement of Skales to appear in TV
commercials, billboards websites and other
social media on behalf of MTN Pulse. As per
the terms of the agreement, Upfront and
Personal was to pay to the Company the sum
of N5,000,000 (five million naira) in two
tranches of N2,500,000 (two million five
hundred thousand naira each). The said
Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe representing
that she was authorized by the Company
obtained the sum of N5,000,000 (five million
naira) due to the Company without being so
authorized. Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe
has failed after repeated demands to repay
the said N5,000,000 (five million naira)
fraudulently obtained.

Given the above circumstances, the Company
believes that a fraud has been committed
against it by Teresa Osagioduwa Osarenkhoe.

The Company hereby appeals to your good
office to investigate this matter in the
interest of fairness and justice.”
Skales was signed to Baseline Music on July
22, 2014. The rapper was unveiled by the
label at a press conference held at
The Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos.

The
label which recently signed female Pop
singer Saeon was being managed by KISS
Entertainment bosses Howie T
and Dipo Abdul .

Skales who was previously signed to popular
label EME (which currently houses the likes
of Banky W, Wizkid, Shaydee and Niyola )
parted ways with the label following the
expiration of his contract in February 2014.
The rapper went on to launch his very own
record label OHK Entertainment which he
still runs independently.

The singer released his debut album in May
2014, and it contained his hit song ‘Shake
body’ among others. Mainevibez carried out
investigations and insider sources have
revealed that the label ceased investing in
Skales after the album.

The label encountered internal crises, where
they fired their management of Howie T and
Dipo Abdul for undisclosed reasons, and that
effectively sealed the line of communication
between Skales and the record label. Sources
also reveal that Howie T is currently suing
the owners of Baseline Music over the affair.

According to mainevibez investigations, Skales’
management has been left in the cold, and
they have tried via email and other mediums
to communicate with Baseline. They have
received no response.
“Baseline refused to pick calls and also
answer emails since 2015 May, do you expect
the young man’s career to be stagnant?” our
source revealed.

According to sources, after many months of
trying to get through to the fragmented
Baseline Music, Skales moved on with his
career, reinvesting his income to constantly
push his career and keep his brand alive.

Mainevibez was also told that Skales has been
single-handedly funding his projects for over
a year, shooting and releasing six videos and
three new singles that were not contained on
his “Man of The Year,” album. Baseline still
has ownership and control of all revenue
gotten from the digital sales of Skales’ and
media.

“Baseline Music are just using Osagie as a
scapegoat for all their internal troubles, it is
simply an act of intimidation, with very little
substance.” Other sources close to the singer
said.