Some service providers have turned to social media such as Facebook to claim their payment.<\/p>\n
Two service providers\u2014 Timothy Ntilosanje and Sam Smith Silumbu \u2014on Monday and yesterday came out to allege that musicians Patience Namadingo and Soldier Lucius Banda owe them K400,000 and K800,000, respectively.<\/p>\n
Ntilosanje said on his Facebook page that he was hired to do graphics and social media for the \u2018Msati Mseke\u2019 star\u2019s concert that was held on February 25 2017.<\/p>\n
He said, in the process, he also did a website that was partly paid for.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, in August, he had another concert that I did graphics for as well. I was supposed to be paid a percentage of the proceeds of both concerts, [but he] ended up backtracking and asking me to charge him,\u201d Ntilosanje said.<\/p>\n
He added that the balance from the website, plus the graphical work from both concerts totalled K400,000, an amount which Ntilosanje alleged Namadingo had no qualms about.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe kept making payment promises since last year, passing all the deadlines he had promised. A few months ago, he just stopped responding to my calls\/messages,\u201d Ntilosanje said.<\/p>\n
He claimed that he has been trying to phone Namadingo but he does not pick his calls and that he stopped responding to his messages.<\/p>\n
Ntilosanje has since taken the issue to his lawyers.<\/p>\n
\u201cMind you, I also tried to resolve this through his manager Tonderai Banda, to no avail,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ntilosanje\u2019s lawyers, Francis Franklin and Company, in a letter dated February 5 2018, have written Namadingo claiming the K400,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been retained by Mr Timothy Ntilosanje hereinafter referred to as our client to claim from you the sum of K400,000 as we hereby do,\u201d reads part of the letter signed by Stanley Chirwa.<\/p>\n
Namadingo has been given seven days to make the K400,000 payment including 15 percent of the total amount owed being indemnity on their client\u2019s legal collection from the date of the letter, failing which they would seek legal redress.<\/p>\n
It all started on Facebook on Monday, when Ntilosanje raised the issue, saying it was now turning to a year without getting his payment.<\/p>\n
When contacted yesterday, Namadingo\u2019s Manager, Tonderai Banda, confirmed receiving a letter from Ntilosanje\u2019s lawyers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, we have received the letter and we have been given seven days but will not comment much rather than saying we will go to court. It\u2019s not money we can fail to pay, let\u2019s go to court, the truth will come out,\u201d Tonderai said.<\/p>\n
In a related development, Sam Smith Silumbu, who is based in China, yesterday also posted on his Facebook page, claiming that musician Soldier Lucius Banda owes him K800,000.<\/p>\n
Silumbu said he supplied goods in May 2017 and that he has tried to contact the artist to settle the bill to no avail.<\/p>\n
He alleged that more than five lawyers have refused to handle this issue peacefully because they are friends with Lucius.<\/p>\n
He also claimed that Lucius stopped answering his messages, adding that he has tried to talk with his business partner, Wendy Harawa, but she said \u201cI am squeezing her\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy tickets were used in two big international functions… Sand Music Festival in October 2017 and Kenyatta Hill,\u201d Silumbu said.<\/p>\n
He said he did not write on the issue on social media was not to tarnish Lucius\u2019 image but to remind him that he owes him K800,000.<\/p>\n
Silumbu said that he spent K500,000 to send the goods from China to Malawi and that he offered to assist after Lucius complained that people were using fake tickets during the Sand Music Festival.<\/p>\n
\u201cI supplied Electronic tickets for Impakt Events. I am not desperate but it\u2019s been long since May 2017,\u201d Silumbu said.<\/p>\n
Lucius, who recently released his Crimes <\/em>album and is on a countrywide tour, said he could not comment much on the issue.<\/p>\n \u201cI will not comment much on the issue. Actually, the issue is between him (Silumbu) and Impakt Events. I wish he could use the right channel other than going to Facebook,\u201d Lucius said Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some service providers have turned to social media such as Facebook to claim their payment. Two service providers\u2014 Timothy Ntilosanje and Sam Smith Silumbu \u2014on Monday and yesterday came out to allege that musicians Patience Namadingo and Soldier Lucius Banda owe them K400,000 and K800,000, respectively. Ntilosanje said on his Facebook page that he was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60310,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60305\/revisions\/60310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}