Seun Kuti, a Nigerian Afrobeat singer and
son of late Fela Anikulapo Kuti has revealed
that the government threatened to shut down
the African shrine if the planned # EndSARS
movement meeting holds there .
Seun planned to hold the meeting on
Tuesday November 17. In a post shared on
his Instagram page on Monday night , the
singer said the government called his older
sister , Yeni Kuti , and threatened to close the
shrine should he go ahead with the meeting .
Seun said he will be respecting his family ’s
decision not to hold the event at the shrine.
His Post Reads ;
” So yesterday the government called my
eldest sister @ yeniakuti and threatened to
close the shrine if I hold my event there tmr
and also sent a letter to back it up . I respect
my families decision not to hold the event
as is but I will still go ahead with all the
other organizations to launch THE
MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE tomorrow and
start our political resistance to the tyranny of
this oppressive regime.
Slide left and you will see the flier.
This is a meeting , just a meeting of
organizations and they are basically banning
the right of association . Why are they afraid
of the people organising ? What is
democratic about this act ? The last time we
tried to launch the government quickly called
curfew and this time they have used threat
but you can ’t stop the will of the people .
# getthesax # liberationgeneration
# wenodoagain #endoppression . ”’
