Aug 31, 2012

Apologise For Killing My Grandmum Before Putting Her Face On 5,000 Naira - Seun Kuti



 “First, the Federal Government has to accept that they were the cause of her death. The official statement that they are still giving us is that she was murdered by 1, 000 unknown soldiers who stormed the Kalakuta Republic.”

 Popular Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti has asked the Federal Government to apologise to his family for the death of his grandmother, Funmilayo Kuti before considering immortalising her by putting her picture on the proposed N5000 note.

 Responding to questions from fans and friends on the gesture by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Seun Kuti insisted that his grandmother was murdered by the Federal Government.Continue reading below.. “She was murdered by the Federal Government, her house was burnt down on that same day, two of her children were brutalised, almost killed on that same day and the family have not receive any apology or compensation, most especially justice for such atrocity,” he said. He said that the decision to put his grandmother’s picture on the proposed N5000 note after 50 years of her death is “ludicrous to say the least.”


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