Ghanaian hiplife rapper, Ayigbe Edem, who is one of the sixteen celebrities signed on by the Mobile Telecommunication Company, Globacom (Glo) as its ambassadors, is involved in a blackmail scandal.

Edem, known for his prolific Ewe rap, has been dragged into yet another scandal after the missing $14,000 mobile phone saga with his ex-lover Confidence, of Aphrodisiac Night Club.

This time around, the rapper is being accused of putting a recorded private phone conversation between him and his former girlfriend (Confidence) on the internet.

The eight minute, fifteen seconds "private" conversation, is currently all over the internet and the question is, who put this on the internet and why?

When peacefmonline called Ayigbe Edem’s Manager and producer Hammer of the ‘Last Two’ Music, and asked if they are aware of such a recording, Hammer confirmed that Agyigbe Edem recorded a couple of phone conversations he had with Confidence at the time their relationship went sour, but he denied knowledge of how it was posted on the internet.

“I advised Edem to start recording all his phone conversations with Confidence because she threatened Edem and made statements like: “If I don’t have you nobody else can have you” and other serious statements when Edem dissolved the relationship.

"I asked him to do that, purely to use it as evidence for the police in case her threats went out of hand. We have never played this recording anywhere or to nobody. We have kept this recording for over a year now and I am very surprised how this got on the internet. If we wanted to expose it, we would have done that long ago,” Hammer explained.

He, however, disclosed to peacefmonline that Edem’s phone which had the recorded conversation on it got missing a month ago, at a school function he (Edem) attended in Accra.

“Apart from his private conversations, he had very important text messages and very vital information on the phone. Edem has all his music ideas and a lot of choruses on this phone and it is unfortunate if someone has access to all these..., which is not meant to go into the public domain and is using it,” he stated.

He registered his displeasure about the private conversation which has now been exposed on the World Wide Web, and appealed to whoever is in possession of the missing phone to return it and remove the conversation off the internet.

“This is very bad, it is very disgusting, and is not good at all for Edem. Not now when he is about to release "an exercise book" in his name ie a new album. I am appealing humbly to the one who has the phone to return it immediately, because his new ideas for his album are on the phone,” he said.

Hammer added that Ayigbe Edem feels very bad and worried over the issue and will do anything to clear his name from this blackmail.

All efforts to reach Confidence Haugen for her side of the story have proven futile. However, she stated on Peace FM’s “Entertainment Review” last Saturday May 1, 2010 during an exclusive interview, that:

“I don’t understand what kind of person will record a phone conversation of their friend without their knowledge, if he or she does not have any intention of using it against you,” implying that the Aphrodisiac Night Club C.E.O. was aware of the said recording before it was posted on the internet three days ago.

Meanwhile peacefmonline investigations revealed that the said recording was played at the offices of Graphic Showbiz and at the Airport police station when Confidence’s missing expensive phone issue came up some months ago.

Peacefmonline is also reliably informed that this is just one out of about five such private conversations on the same phone, and whoever posted this on the internet has promised to release the other four.

The mystery of this looming blackmail or name-tarnishing is still unfolding.

Just keep your fingers crossed as the drama unfolds and peacefmonline tries to unravel this uncanny maze in the Ayigbe Edem/Confidence love debacle.