Ghanaian Broadcaster and Entrepreneur, Serwaa Amihere has tendered an apology to the Action Worship Center after calling them out for stealing her designs.
The award-winning Journalist had in a
post on Facebook, called out the Church and its Choir for stealing designs from
her clothing company, Office and Co by Serwaa Amihere.
Ms Amihere had seen a photo from the church with the
females adorned in a beautiful pink dress, a design she claimed was her own.
“This is my intellectual property Action Worship Center. Your choristers
stole my design. Something I’m selling. That is wickedness, pure wickedness,”
she captioned the photo.
Serwaa’s outburst caught attention on
social media, and some users went digging into the matter.
It was later discovered through Pinterest that the
design Serwaa claimed as her own was actually an old design from a Chinese
designer, Lee Jong Suk.
Serwaa was called out and accused of
stealing designs from the internet and posing them off as her own.
She has since issued an apology to the church, their
customers, the general public and revealed the company will be recalling the
dress from their clothing line.
READ FULL STATEMENT BELOW:
“Our claim to the IP rights in the Celine
dress is insufficient. This resulted from a gap which we have identified in our
internal IP assurance procedures. We have since taken decisive steps to improve
our mechanism for avoiding IP violations.
To affirm our commitment to respecting IP rights, we
have removed the Celine dress from our clothing line. Additionally, we are, by
this publication, recalling the Celine dress.
Also, we feel obliged to apologize to the Action
Worship Centre for the embarrassment that our claim has caused them.
We wish to reassure our esteemed customers of our
deep commitment to offering a superior quality and style option of globally
competitive women’s office clothing and accessories.”
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