Freeze, Merrybet host fight over appearance payment

Hours after the host of Merry Bet Fan Challenge, Kiibati Bankole called out Cool FM’s Freeze who claimed she has been avoiding his call after refusal to pay up her debt which she says she never owed him, the controversial radio personality has replied saying it is typical of Kiibati to deny his claim while also providing proof of correspondence between them both.

In her defence Kiibati said she had contacted Freeze to help her convince DJ Exclusive to attend her show ‘Merry Bet Fan Challenge’ and Freeze gave monetary conditions for accepting to appear on the show with the DJ.

Kiibati said the money quoted by Freeze to have him and DJ Exclusive attend the show was on the high while also noting that Freeze didn’t also help matters as he didn’t live up to his own part of the deal by not promoting the show on radio which forced the cancellation of the agreement, only for Freeze to attend the event unannounced and subsequently requested to be paid for his appearance.

However, Freeze posted a lengthy message on Instagram showing proof that he actually had a back and for the with Kiibati over the show and also claimed the host of Merry Bet Fan Challenge didn’t send him a text, email, phone call or verbal agreement calling of the deal.

Read his post on Instagram below;

“How come you were begging me to confirm that I would work with you and still begging me, less than two weeks to the event, to bear with you as you will pay N500k, which you never did, and you never called or texted me to cancel off my appearance?

“You obviously have been doing this for a while so it’s in your DNA, do you know how many people I have met randomly, who told me that this very typical of you?

“The last time I did business with you, it took almost a year to get my complete payment. But like they say that one na story for the gods.

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“Obviously, you are not very versed when it comes to contracts, if perhaps you were, you won’t make unintelligent statements like “the stage manager concluded by your harassment that you were just being a passionate football fan and eventually let you go on stage with the celebrity friend you brought to the event”.

“If the stage manager just put me on stage as you claim in your ‘body of lies’, how come there is an email from you, involving the other party and I, just before we went on stage, with the ‘orijo’ of the questions we would be asked?

“We had a contractual agreement, I could be sued for not showing up, and you will be, for not paying me, as there is no history of you at any-time calling off our agreement, verbally or through phone calls, texts or emails.
“This would serve as a deterrent not just to you, but all other OAPs and celebrities.

“If you choose for any reason, not to honour a contract, there are ways to go about it. You can’t just decide not to show up, or not to pay for services, coming up with dodgy excuses and lies.

“Kiibati, I’m not broke, this has nothing to do with money, it’s the flaws in your character that I am bringing to light. ~FRZ.

“Attached are copies of our correspondence, up until the day of the event, via email and text messages. Cc @merrybetsports.

“P.S. Kiibati, I noticed at a point, that you were trying to wriggle your way into the coolwazobiainfo sports team, after a while you were told to stop coming, does this have anything to do with this your ‘character’?” His post read in full.

 

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