Last week, publicist and writer Joy Bewaji went
on a twitter tirade to lash at her client, Makosi Musambasi for publishing her
material without her consent. {See the gist here}
Makosi, a Zimbabwean and a former Big Brother
UK star has reacted to Joy’s tweet – she stated that Joy’s claims is ‘malicious
and vindictive’ – that the new book, “Self
Love: The Ultimate Choice” was not the book she contracted Bewaji to
ghost-write for her
A
ghostwriter is a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other
texts that are officially credited to another person.
In a statement issued by a lawyer
representing Makosi, Joy was alleged to have received the sum of $9,200 at one
point, $1,500 at another and $2,100 (totalling $12,800) to ghost-write the
book.
The lawyer claimed that a problem erupted
when Bewaji realised who Makosi was after scouring the internet and she decided
to ask for more money. “Joy requested for an additional $19,300 to ghost write
this book,” she said.
Makosi requested that the contract be
terminated and Bewaji refund her money but the Nigerian refused claiming she
had already started the job and invested a lot in the process. Makosi is said
to have proceeded to focus her energy on compiling the book “with some
influence from her journal.”
“I want this to be properly noted that
“Self-Love: The ultimate choice” is NOT the book my client initially contracted
Joy Bewaji to ghost-write for her. So clearly, there is either a
misunderstanding, jealous rift or a cheap attempt at blackmail and a clearly
fraudulent plot to swindle a non-Nigerian.”
“On September 21, 2013 my client was
contacted about receiving twitter messages from Joy Bewaji, with the spurious
allegation that Makosi stole her material for the book and hour’s later blogs
in Nigeria had done a story that brought to light the falsity that was Joy’s
accusation,” the lawyer said.
“Joy went further to write all sorts of
negative stories about my client Makosi Musambasi. Although she has since taken
down the tweets, she made unsuccessful attempts to contact my client through
third parties, asking to negotiate in a bizarre bid to blackmail her.
“What Joy Bewaji fails to comprehend is that
she communicated mostly via email messages with my client and we have
documented evidence against her and more importantly she was paid to do a job
she totally neglected and worse still failed to make a refund,” the lawyer
added.
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