{"id":65481,"date":"2023-05-16T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=65481"},"modified":"2023-05-16T08:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:39:53","slug":"son-of-afrobeat-legend-fela-kuti-arrested-for-police-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/son-of-afrobeat-legend-fela-kuti-arrested-for-police-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti arrested for &#8216;police assault&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian musician Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer, Lagos state police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>An order was made for the arrest of Kuti, a Grammy-nominated saxophonist and singer, on Saturday after a viral video showed him on a road, shouting and apparently pushing and smacking a policeman, police said.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div class=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>He turned himself in early Monday to the headquarters of the Lagos State Police Command, accompanied by a lawyer and a family representative, police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>&#8220;He has been placed under arrest in line with the law,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>&#8220;The ongoing investigation will be detailed, transparent, professionally pursued; and justice will be manifestly served for all parties involved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<h4>Youngest son<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Kuti, 40, is the youngest son of Fela Kuti, who drove Afrobeat &#8212; a powerful mix of funk and jazz &#8212; to global fame in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>A charismatic figure and activist who was bitterly critical of Nigeria&#8217;s military regimes and corrupt elite, Fela Kuti died in 1997 but retains a fervent following today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>His son started playing in his band Egypt 80, at the age of nine and took the helm when he was just 14, after his father died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>In 2019, Kuti and the group were nominated for a Grammy, the paramount US music awards, for their album Black Times in the Global Music category.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<aside class=\"promotion-banner color-set-color-5\">\n<div class=\"promotion-banner_texts\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Nigerian musician Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer, Lagos state police said on Monday. An order was made for the arrest of Kuti, a Grammy-nominated saxophonist and singer, on Saturday after a viral video showed him on a road, shouting and apparently pushing and smacking a policeman, police said. He turned himself in early Monday to the headquarters of the Lagos State Police Command, accompanied by a lawyer and a family representative, police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin said on Twitter. &#8220;He has been placed under arrest in line with the law,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The ongoing investigation will be detailed, transparent, professionally pursued; and justice will be manifestly served for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":65482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[1727,1726],"class_list":["post-65481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-fela-kuti","tag-seun-kuti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}