Seun Kuti Takes A Swpie At Oyakhilome, Okotie, Says My Reverend Grandfather Never Divorced, But You Two Did

Lol, talk about big mouth in a small body (Seun sorry o)
Lol. So Seun in an interview with the Nation has revealed again why he does not
believe in marriage and why Nigeria made a mistake by banning marijuana. He
also took a swipe at Pastor Chris Okoti and Pastor Oyakhilome accusing them of
divorcing their wives while his own grandfather who was a reverend never did.
Enjoy!

Afro beat singer, Seun Kuti, has
said that the Nigerian government was ill advised to ban the use of marijuana,
believing that the decision is a carryover of colonial law.

According to the artiste, “There
are doctors and scientists who believe that marijuana should be legalised.
There are also lawyers, judges, and politicians who believe that the war on
drugs is a false war. That is actually a war on the poor people all over the
world, because poor people and rich people use drugs to be sane. But you will
find that here, people are in jail more for drug use.”

Going further, he said, “We as
Africans had no reason to ban marijuana. It was done out of the U.S. lobby,
forcing our governments to ban the drug. I don’t think that the Nigerian
government has ever carried out any independent research on marijuana. One of
the biggest markets in the world for marijuana in the world is Israel (which is
a more religious country than Nigeria). But they understand the benefits…
especially the economic benefits. So much wealth can be generated from it, but
that is another issue entirely.”

Seun, a father of one, says that
he does not believe in marriage for the simple reason that it is a power game.
“It is a thing of ego, of domination and submission. I think humanity is
gradually moving away from it from the number of marriages that don’t even
work. In the ones that work, someone has to submit, someone has to give up who
they are for the other person for it to work; especially the women, if no one
agrees to do that, the marriage won’t work. Women are more independent,” he
said.

The singer, who studied Popular
Music and Sound Technology at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, going
further with his thoughts of marriage, and women’s liberation said that his
grandmother Mrs. Funmilayo Kuti, a foremost nationalist and feminist did not
have a great relationship with her husband after she became independent. “My
father told me that when his father died, his mother told him she and her
husband had not been speaking for 10 years, even though they lived in the same
house… staying together because of the children. My grandfather was a reverend,
so divorce was not an option. Not like Chris Oyakhilome, or Chris Okotie that
divorced, they swore an oath to God, and still broke the oath.”