Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti has opined that people are accusing the late Nigerian singer Mohbad’s father of having a hand in his death due to his financial status.
The 27-year-old singer passed away on Tuesday, September 12, under mysterious circumstances and was swiftly buried the following day.
This didn’t sit well with many fans of the singer, and they criticized the singer’s father for burying him without discovering the real cause of his death. Others accused him of being complicit in his death and burying him quickly to hide ‘something’.
Addressing these speculations, Seun Kuti, in a recent interview on Nedu’s podcast “The Honest Bunch,” asserted that people are criticizing the bereaved father because he is poor.
He added that no parent wants to be looking at their child’s corpse, so it’s not wrong for him to have buried him immediately.
His words,
“Poverty is playing a big role in this whole Mohbad issue. People are saying Mohbad’s father killed him because he buried him early. Who will be looking at his son’s dead body for two to three days?” He queried.
Speaking in Pidgin, Kuti asked, “If na Otedola pikin die and he bury am overnight, wetin anybody go talk here? No be sey una go dey give am condolences visit for a house?
“Instead of us to be consoling the man, we are making him evil that can kill his son. Somebody that just lost his child. You like the boy pass am na hin dem dey bully the boy all these days and you no talk anything.”
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