Seun Kuti, a Nigerian afrobeat musician, claimed that his grandmother, Fumilayo Ransome Kuti, was thrown out of the window during the invasion of Kalakuta by over 1000 soldiers, and that the attack on his grandmother on February 18, 1977, by Nigerian soldiers at his late father Fela’s Kalakuta residence was motivated by the United States.
The musician claimed in a recent interview that Olusegun Obasanjo, a previous head of state who ruled Nigeria militarily between 1975 and 1979, was a CIA stooge and a supporter of Jimmy Carter, the president of the United States at the time.
He claims that during the Cold War, his grandmother was attacked because of her support for socialism, and that she never fully recovered.
He said, “I believe also like because 1977 this was in the height of the cold war. And she was Africa’s only surviving leading socialist at that time with any kind of real political power and clout.
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“So, I think the attack was really 30 percent on Fela and 70 percent on her because Olusegun Obasanjo was really a CIA stooge. He was really a Jimmy Carter’s boy.
“I think that woman [Fumilayo Ransome Kuti] was really the target because why would you throw a seventy-something-year-old woman?
“How could she be resisting that you need to throw a seventy-something-year-old woman out of the window if you have not been told by some superiors that you have to do that?”.
