Seun Kuti, an Afrobeat artist, claims that his father, Fela Kuti, and his colleagues were set up by late MKO Abiola and his wife, Simbiat, who accused Fela of taking Simbiat’s Ferrari at gunpoint under Muhammadu Buhari’s military administration.
Seun Kuti claims that the alleged conspiracy was a part of a plot to have Fela put to death under the harsh anti-armed robbery laws of the regime because the charges were made during the period when Buhari’s deputy head of state, Tunde Idiagbon, was enforcing the laws, which made armed robbery a capital offence that carried the death penalty.
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According to Seun Kuti, “Abiola and his wife, Simbiat, lied against Fela that he and his boys robbed her of her Ferrari at gunpoint under Idiagbon’s regime. This was Abiola and his wife’s plan to kill my dad because, under Idiagbon, armed robbery was punishable by death”.
“Abiola and Simbiat wrote a statement at a police station that they saw Fela and his gang rob her at gunpoint. This led to Fela’s arrest which is punishable by death, but luckily for Fela, he was performing in Cameroon the very day Simbiat was lying about the theft. Fela escaped the case because he can’t be in two places at the same time; its either he’s on a stage in Cameroon or robbing in Lagos”.
“Responding, Fela and my elder brother, Femi, took 12 buckets of faeces go and listen to his song – give me shit, I give you shit – then you will have a better understanding. They took it to Abiola’s house in the middle of the night and smeared his compound.
“The next day, the police visited my father’s house saying they came to investigate the shit-show in Abiola’s house the previous day. But Fela denied the act saying if given the opportunity, he would smear Abiola’s house with faeces.”
