The famous Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, SAN, has reacted to the manner his son who’s a talented musician, Folarin Falana popularly known as Falz, is ’embarrassing the government.’
The famous human rights lawyer made this clarification at the 2nd anniversary of the Oluyinka Odumakin Lecture in Lagos on Sunday.
He said his son criticised the government because of what he grew up seeing.
He said while growing up, his son experienced seeing him (Femi Falana) being arrested and detained.
The big Falana said he was arrested countless number of moments which made his son asked if he was a criminal.
Femi Falana said: “One of these guys one day said, ‘Falana talk to your son; he should stop embarrassing the government’. I said which government? You mean that boy who is an adult? Can I give you his number so you can talk to him? But be careful because when that boy was growing up, I was being arrested from time to time. So, the only language he understood was detention, arrest and the rest of them.
“One day, when that boy was six, he asked his mother, “Our teacher taught us that only criminals were arrested. Is my father a criminal? Why is he always being arrested? And the mother had to say that in Nigeria, under the military, only two sets of people were arrested: Criminals suspects and political suspects. Political suspects are those who are out to expose the criminality of the government. That is what you see going on.”