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Falz reacts sarcastically to NBC’s suspension of his song
Musician and actor Folarin Falana better known as Falz has reacted sarcastically to a letter by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) which fined a radio station based in Jos, Plateau State, for airing his controversial song titled “This is Nigeria”.
The NBC in a letter on Thursday declared as “unfit for radio” a part of the song – “This is Nigeria which goes thus; “look how we living now everybody be criminal”.
Reacting to the letter by the NBC which fined the radio station the sum of N100, 000 (one hundred thousand naira), the ace rapper shared a picture of the letter allegedly written by the body regulating broadcast media in Nigeria.
Read also: MURIC drops court case against Falz, but still wants action against artiste
He sarcastically captioned the social media post the same way the NBC put it in its letter: “This is Nigeria. Look how we living now, everybody be criminal” is apparently a vulgar line…
Recall that Falz was once in a running battle with the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) which issued a seven-day ultimatum ordering him to withdraw the video for the song in question and apologise to Nigerians or face legal action.
The group later dropped the ultimatum in a fresh statement signed by its Director Professor Ishaq Akintola, but said they would report the musician to appropriate agencies.
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