Chris Brown has been stuck in Manila in the Philippines for two days while immigration officials refuse to grant him permission to leave.

The 26-year-old singer is being held in the Southeast Asian country after a fraud complaint was filed against him saying that Mr Brown owed a religious Christian group over a million dollars refund after he skipped a concert he was meant to perform there last New Year’s Eve. Although, he performed a make-up concert in the country just three days ago. 

 

Still got it. Thank you Manila for allowing me to come and perform!

A video posted by @chrisbrownofficial on

In a desperate appeal, the Five More Hours singer posted a video of himself to his Instagram in which he is seen pleading, with his hands in a prayer position, to get out of the Philippines and back to the US safely. The video, which has since been deleted, was captioned “OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!” as the singer pleaded to the President of the United States.

Chris also took to Twitter to explain the severity of the situation. “This is a very serious situation and someone needs to be held accountable for mixing my name up in all this. I’ve done nothing wrong!!!”

He added, “I have nothing to do with anything going on right now. I came back to Manila to do a make-up show for New Years, I did the show three days ago.”

The concert that the father-of-one failed to show up for was sponsored by the Christian group Iglesia ni Cristo. The religious group are hugely influential on Philippine politics.

This is by no means the first time that high-profile celebrities have run into difficulty when performing in the country.

The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and One Direction are a few of the world’s biggest names in music that have had trouble with the Philippine government and censorship controls.

When asked about Mr Brown’s case, a US embassy spokesman told AFP that, “The embassy assists its citizens who are in need.”