Afro beat musician Femi Kuti, has revealed how he holed his first son, “Made” inside the shrine for about six years.
Kuti in an interview with Chude Jideonwo, on his #WithChude programme, explained that he resorted to keeping his family in the shrine in order to keep them from harm’s way.
“When he was growing up, we spent 6 years in the shrine because they were sending thugs and police to raid, so the only way to stop that was to move into the shrine. So, I put all my adopted children and my son upstairs, and then, somebody comes to me and said, what if they kill your son?
“So, I thought it was a political message because I was very political at that time. Social media wasn’t as it was today so, people will raid, police will raid here, and nobody will talk, and the press was against me for whatever reason they had against me. he said.
He also revealed the opportunity gave him the chance to personally see to the growth of his son.
“All I had was my son. My son, my elder sister, and her daughter, but my son was closer because he is my son. So, I molded him and gave him all the opportunities I didn’t have — musically and otherwise. So, everybody thought I was bringing him up as a spoilt child and people would say I was spoiling him, and I would say, ‘He’s like a flower; I’m giving him sunlight, and watering him”, he added.
