Fela didn’t just perform, he documented a people’s reality. Every horn line, every lyric, evidence that music can confront power.
The Iconic Figure receives a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award next month preserving his legacy.
“Obama undermined Jonathan in a way that unleashed Boko Haram. We had the Chibok girls on surveillance before they were distributed & were ordered to stand down & not give that intel to Nigerian military to make Jonathan look bad. He pulled military support claiming that Nigeria didn’t support gay marriage.”
~Mike Arnold
This video of hired thugs attacking women and children protesting peacefully in front of the Kwara State Government House over mass kidnapping and insecurity in their area of the state is one of the most despicable scenes I have ever witnessed at a seat of government. It is especially disturbing that uniformed @PoliceNG officers stood by and watched as helpless women protesters were beaten, harassed, and humiliated in broad daylight.
I unequivocally condemn Governor @realAARahman AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq’s intolerance and high-handedness in sanctioning or at the very least permitting such barbaric acts against citizens exercising their constitutional right to protest. This descent into violence against women and children is unacceptable in any democracy.
The Nigeria Police Force must immediately identify and sanction the officers who abdicated their duty to protect lives and property. The thugs who carried out this assault must be arrested, prosecuted without delay, and brought to justice. Anything short of this will confirm official complicity
For over a decade,Nigerians have watched loved ones die at the hands of violent groups, yet influential in the political class,particularly from the North and parts of the Abuja, have often responded with extraordinary softness toward the very actors tormenting ordinary citizens.
So while villages were being burned, farmers murdered on their land,worshippers ambushed in churches and mosques,and travellers kidnapped for ransom, the nation’s elite carried on a disturbing debate:
Should these killers be comforted, paid, rehabilitated or granted negotiations?