The court fixed the date for the trial following the refusal of the Managing Director of the MTN Nigeria Communication, Mr Ferdi Moolman, to appear in court, as he was alleged to be evading service of the court processes and also refused to honour NCC investigators’ invitation. NCC director of prosecution, A.T. Kohol, told newsmen that the commission would apply for a bench warrant for the arrest of the MTN boss for refusal to honour NCC invitation and his refusal to appear in court. “If he makes execution of the bench warrant impossible, NCC shall declare him wanted and the effect is that he becomes arrestable by any security agent whereever he is sighted especially at the airport.” Kohol said NCC operatives have been directed to trail and keep a tab on him. NCC, which is a Federal Government agency, vested with the powers to administer and regulate Copyright has been investigating MTN Nigeria Communication and its Chief Executive Officer, Ferdi Moolman, over alleged copyright infringement. The NCC Act gives investigators powers to invite people against whom allegation of copyright infringement has been made. Investigator sent out invitation letters to the MTN boss while examining criminal violation of copyright in musical works of Mr Omenuwoma Okson Dovie, Aka Baba2010, but the invitations were not honoured by the MTN boss. In the two-count-charge signed by NCC Prosecutor and Copyright Inspector, Marypauline Olere-Luma, MTN and Moolman were alleged to have infringed on copies of the musical work of an Abuja-based musician, Dovie Omenuwoma-Eniwo (aka Baba 2010). Specifically, the defendants were alleged to have distributed “sell or let for hire or for the purposes of trade or business, expose or offer for sale 3009 infringing copies of the musical work” of Baba 2010.]]>