Nigerian singer Oyindamola Emmanuel, popularly known as Dammy Krane, has been allegedly arrested and detained by the Nigerian Police over tweets he made about David Adeleke Davido.
According to FIJ, he was invited to answer questions bordering on cryptocurrency trading but upon arriving, the police then told him there was a petition sent from Abuja. This petition had David Adeleke’s name on it, and the offence was cyberstalking.
The artist had been calling out Davido since October 2023 when Dammy Krane alleged that Davido owed him money for their successful collaboration on their 2017 song “Pere” and appealed to him to settle the debt, citing his daughter’s impending school fees as the reason.
Responding to the allegations, Davido, in a post on X, claimed he had never received compensation for the three verses he contributed to Dammy Krane’s song nine years ago.
However, their fight took on a different dimension when Davido through his legal representative, Ojukwu Chikaosolu & Co. demanded Dammy Krane to take down the defamatory statements about him
In the letter signed by Segun Fiki, Davido gave Dammy Krane 24 hours to remove and retract the offensive publication from all his social media platforms.
The letter partly reads, “The above posts you published to your over 342 600 (Three Hundred and Forty-Two Thousand, Six Hundred) followers X have been circulated globally and syndicated by numerous blogs worldwide. Given the status of our client, this post has unsurprisingly gained significant traction globally, and our client is, at the time of this letter, trending at No. 1 on X Trends for Nigeria, attracting thousands of negative comments and reactions in the process.
“Your conduct in publishing these statements, despite knowing them to be false, is not only malicious but also orchestrated to defame and injure our client’s reputation, a globally recognised music star. Such actions constitute a civil breach and an infraction of the relevant criminal laws.”
Following several callouts and a letter served on the artist, Krane was subsequently invited last Wednesday to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, in Lagos State.
Although the artist was granted bail by the police on Thursday, they demanded he provide a level 14 civil servant as surety before he regains his freedom. He has yet to meet this condition and remained in detention at the FCID, Abuja, as of press time.
