The Music Copyright Society Kenya (MCSK) CEO Ezekiel Mutua has apologised to Makau Mutua, hours after calling him a pretend professor on social media.
In a publish on X, Ezekiel termed Makau a pretend professor after the latter criticised MCSK for promising to disburse Ksh20 million as royalties to 16,000 artistes, which interprets to a median of Ksh1,250.
“I’m seeing some dimwits together with a pretend professor who lives in America and runs an eatery in Kitui deceptive people who MCSK declared royalty distribution of Ksh20M can be shared equally amongst our 16000 members, therefore each member will get Ksh1,250. I’m certain that the pretend Professor has a payroll for his eatery in Kitui and his employees don’t earn the identical quantities. We issued a press release to the media and indicated the standards used for distribution consistent with our guidelines. However malicious and lazy brains would somewhat propagate a lie than the details. We reside in a sick society!” Ezekiel acknowledged.
In a rejoinder, Makau termed the insults as juvenile, which ought to by no means be uttered by a person of Ezekiel’s calibre.
“My namesake Ezekiel Mutua — no relation — I see that you simply’ve acquired and internalized my message. A superb begin. Juvenile insults, nevertheless, should be beneath a gentleman and an erudite man such as you. I taught you higher,” Makau stated.
Ezekiel Mutua’s apology
Nevertheless, hours later, Ezekiel acknowledged on X (previously Twitter) that he had spoken to Makau and apologised. By the point of going to press, Ezekiel had not deleted his social media publish with insults in opposition to Makau.
In his apology, Ezekiel admitted that Makau taught him and even helped him safe a profitable job.
“I’ve spoken to my senior Prof. Makau Mutua and apologised profusely and unreservedly for my earlier publish that didn’t sit nicely with him. Professor (Makau Mutua) taught me and in addition gave me a profitable job some years again. Once I served within the UN Secretary Common’s Committee on Info between 2007 and 2010, I might wander by way of the streets of the College of New York at Buffalo and his identify alone would open doorways. He’s an incredible man, however generally he falters and veers into pointless controversy even on mundane issues like royalty distribution. I simply don’t know what occurs. However that doesn’t imply he’s pretend. He’s one in every of Kenya’s most interesting. To the extent that my publish was offensive, I sincerely apologise,” Ezekiel acknowledged.
Makau Mutua is a Kenyan-American professor on the SUNY Buffalo Faculty of Regulation and was its dean from 2008 to 2014.
He teaches worldwide human rights, worldwide enterprise transactions and worldwide regulation.
