[ 2014-01-17 ]

Rex Omar

Court sells Rex Omar's car and TV
Armed police officers and a court registrar, on
Wednesday dawn, stormed the home of popular
high-life musician, Rex Omar, to seize his
properties with the intention of auctioning them.

Rex Omar personally helped the police to move out
his room items including coffee tables, TV stand,
two pieces of 21-inches plasma television sets, a
home theatre set, and his old Renault Cleo salon
car registered three years ago.

The operation was on the orders of the Tema
Circuit Court 'B', following Rex Omar's inability
to cough out an amount of €8000 given to him by
his brother-in- law, Haruna Al-Rashid Idris, to
secure land for the construction of a salt mining
project.

The seized assets, when sold are not likely to
amount to € 8000, and the house in which Rex
stays cannot be auctioned because it is a rented
property.

Haruna is therefore reported to be searching for
other properties of Rex across the country so he
gets the court to confiscate them for auctioning.

Rex Omar declined speaking to this paper over the
matter when he was con¬tacted.

According to a statement of defence, Haruna
invited Rex to Germany for a business discussion
between them on one side and two Germans partners
who proposed the setting up of a Compact Disk (CD)
Plant at Accra.

Rex was said to have advised Haruna and his German
partners that the cost of establishing the CD
plant, which was estimated over one million Euros
plus, was too high in relation to its viability,
recoverability and profitability. He was said to
have explained further that the Ghana music market
was an unpredictable one with a very loose
copyright regime.

Rex reportedly suggested that if Haruna and his
business partners were still poised in setting up
a capital venture in Ghana, they should rather
consider investing in salt mining.

Haruna and his partners consequently expressed
interest in the salt business and proposed that
they jointly set up a salt mining company in
Ghana.

Rex returned to Ghana and within two months,
claimed to have conducted feasibility studies for
the project to take off.

According to the statement, Rex was able to
secure a 504-acre land at a cost of GHC 3million
per acre at Winneba for the salt project using his
public image, reputation and good will among
others in Ghana. He was said to have then signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a lease of
the 504-acre land with the concerned chiefs.

Haruna, whiles in Germany where he is domiciled,
was said to have given Rex Omar an amount of
€8000 to pay for the leasing of the land and
other expenses for the project.

But when Haruna later returned to Ghana for the
construction project to commence, he realized the
land was not secured and further checks with the
concerned chiefs revealed that no such
consultations were made.

After fruitless attempts to retrieve the money
from his brother-in-law, Haruna reported the
matter to the Tema Police where Rex was
apprehended.

The case was sent to Tema Circuit Court B presided
over by His Honour Emmanuel Bart-Plange Brew,
where judgment was entered in favour of Haruna in
June 2008.

Rex promised to pay the amount in four instalments
but failed to honour his promise, thus, pushing
his brother-in-law to secure writ of execution and
forfeiture to auction and sell his properties to
defray his money.

Source - NewsOne

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