Nigeria: Social media was animated over the weekend when a video of Seun Kuti, Grammy-nominated Afrobeat musician and son of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, shows him assaulting an officer in police uniform. By JollyPaps1
. Perennial agitation for police reform, which culminated in the ENDSARS protests, have not produced any meaningful results. Even so, this does not simplify Kuti’s dilemma involved in a traffic incident with the police whose constitutional duty was to adjudicate in that scenario.
Kuti and his influential family are no strangers to the police. His father, Fela Kuti was detained and brutalised by the police a record number of times, in his more than three decades as a musician and social activist.
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