Three months ago, Caroline Ekanem Danjuma made an official action to focus on her family and her production company, Guepard Productions, which also houses a record label, Guepard Records. The actress hasn’t appeared in a movie since she got married in 2007 to Musa Danjuma, younger brother of former Nigerian defense minister, TY Danjuma. And the reason she gave on why she decided to go into music at the launching of the outfit is that, music has always held a life long attraction for her and that is perhaps the chief reason for floating Guepard Records, and the fact that she also recognizes musical talents anytime she comes across one.
Guepard Record Label is a company that promises to set a new record and standard in the entertainment industry. The outfit was actually launched in a grand way.
She did not stop at that. A couple of days after the launch, she hosted a glamorous gig which held at the upscale and swanky De Marquee roof top lounge, which also served as a listening party to officially introduce J2D and Le Soul; upcoming artistes signed on the budding record label. And ever since, she has been working effortless in pushing their musical career. Their album which has been released into the airwaves is also fast gaining recognition by music lovers. And everything was going on well between the team until recently when conflict struck between Caroline and her artistes, and left a negative effect on the company as the 2 artistes quit their deal with Caroline and went under cover.
The crisis actually started couple of weeks back when Caroline asked the artistes Le Soul and J2D to go and perform at her husband’s end of year party at Comet Shipping. The boys refused to go because they said they didn’t give them enough notice. This resulted into a serious argument between Caroline and the boys as she threatened to remove them from her record label. She locked up the place were J2D stays and locked their things inside. The guys then went back to the premises and begged the gate man to please open the place for them to pick their things, as they wanted to return back to Jos. The gateman opened the place and they took their things and left.
On getting to the office the following day, Caroline realized that the 2 artistes had left, so she ordered one of the staff to beat the gate man.
The staff is Phillip allegedly beat the gate man with a plank that had nails on it. He allegedly beat this guy up until the point that he started bleeding all over the ground and later fainted. The gateman was said to have been hospitalized until he regained his consciousness.
Right now, the other artistes, Le Soul said that Caroline have been sending messages to him and his wife claiming that she will fight them physically and spiritually and that the boy should pay the money she invested in his career
As for the artistes, they are now scared of their lives and they don’t want any evil to befall their family, and that if Caroline feels there are any issues with the contract, she should follow due process. The case is currently a messy one, and because the boys are scared of their safety, they have both operating under the radar ever since the crisis started.
The record label manager, Hilda Ekama promised to send a comprehensive detail of their own side of the story. But she didn’t get back as at Press time.
