Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti on Monday reacted to the ban of Okada and tricycles in Lagos.The music star took to his Instagram page on Tuesday, February 4, 2020, where he expressed his disappointment at the reactions the ban of the use of Okada has been getting in the state.
“Nigerian professionals have shown their true colors again as largely oppressors in waiting. Children dying in the hospital every day they don’t care. Miseducated and undereducated children they don’t care. Police brutality, no outrage but tell them to walk from bus stop to the office oh no the worst has happened!!!
If u wish for your children or loved ones to be Okada and Keke riders please raise up your hand! We know these ain’t jobs. We pacify those we have failed with slave labor and slave wages and we are ready to fight for them to continue slaving away!! #getthesax,” he wrote.
Seun Kuti joins the millions of Nigerians who have had mixed reactions over the ban of Okada as a means of transportation in Lagos state.
The saxophonist recently said he dislikes people who use Fela’s name as an excuse to be irresponsible.
“I believe that true love must come with knowledge. To love something, you have to know it. That is why people don’t marry strangers. Some people use Fela as an excuse to be irresponsible and I speak out against it because I don’t like it. Fela did not keep billions in the bank. At any point in time, he had about 300 people staying in his house and another 500 living in the shrine, and he paid salaries and daily allowances to them all. All the money Fela had went back to the people; he didn’t keep it to himself. Fela’s band was 70-men strong”.