An Headless Fela is No Respect But An Insult – Angry Fan Writes Open Letter To Lagos State Government

Hello Naijaloadites,

We woke up to this Open letter to the Lagos State Government from Steven Ofishea.

Disclaimer:- “Opinions expressed here are solely that of the Writer and do not express the views or opinions of Naijaloaded.”

I heard about the plans to unveil a statue of the King of Afrobeats “Fela Anikulapo Kuti”, that news made my day as I was so excited about it  then finally on the 15th of October the almighty statue of the legend was unveiled (See Here).

I was so anxious to see it as I viewed the post on Naijaloaded, only to see an headless and handless statue of the legend 

At first I refused to believe this was on purpose, so I relaxed onwards to conclude within myself that the artist wasn’t able to round up the work at the time it was to be unveiled then probably they would fix the head and hands later on, so I kept my cool and waited for the announcement.

Lo and behold, the daughter of the great legend and the artist who made the portrait are cool with this as they said “it was designed to generate discussion about the emancipation of the people.” Really?