Dede Mabiaku, close friend of late Nigerian Afrobeat
musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has said that the legendary artiste died from a
lethal injection by the Nigerian Government and not from HIV/AIDS as
speculated.
Mabiaku, who doubled as protégée of the late musician, was
speaking with Object TV Media where he compared the Department of State
Services’ rearrest of Omoyele Sowore’s to what happened to Fela, TheCable
reports.
Mabiaku said Fela had told him and Seun Kuti about his
suspicions that he had been injected with “something” in the custody of the
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
Mabiaku also said he waited for many years after Fela’s
death for someone to bring the issue up but everyone seemed to have kept quiet
until DSS’s confrontation with Sowore led to a similar suspicion.
He said, “NDLEA, that’s where they injected him while he was
in their custody. And I’m bold to say it today. Why no one has raised this
matter since then is what I don’t know. I’ve waited for long for people to say
this thing. I’ve waited for 22 years.
“He never knew what they injected him with. He just felt
something and asked us whether we’eve seen him sleep face-down before and we
said no. And he asked us how come it happened, showing us his side and saying
he feels like he was injected with something.
“Many things happen, we’ve heard of Abiola’s case. We need
to be real with ourselves. It’s time for a human revolution. We need to change
our thought process and our attitude to what we are —
Africans. I want us all to remember these things.”
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