Seun Kuti, Nigerian Musician Says ‘Internet Fraud Better Than Gambling’ (VIDEO)
Nigerian recording artiste, Seun Kuti has stated that he prefers internet fraud to gambling.
He made this known in a video that he shared on his YouTube channel.
Seun Kuti, the youngest son of the legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti stated that gambling is ruining African youths and it is taking them far away from achieving their dreams.
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The former Grammy award nominee said that gambling is a white man’s business and that it has been rigged to steal from Africa through false hopes.
According to the father of one, he prefers that an African youth engages in cybercrime rather than gambling because the former is still under control, unlike the latter.
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Making case for his preference still, Seun Kuti noted ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ can be controlled unlike gambling where the people are at the mercy of scheme.
He said:
“I’ll never be the one to say, ‘you’re a bad person for gambling’.
“But I’m begging young African people.
“See, your greatness ehn, doesn’t lie in all these gambling.
“Yes, they’ve made you feel like if you don’t own anything, if you cannot afford certain things, women won’t look at your face.
“You too that you are a woman, you won’t be able to attract a good man and all that.
“Yes, I understand, but not by gambling.
“Because in gambling, you’ve already lost.
“That’s a set up.
“You’ve lost already.”
He continued;
“Do the one that you’re in control.
“I prefer ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ to gambling, I swear. Do ‘Yahoo Yahoo’.
“Do ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ dey go rather than gambling; please.
“Just the way alcohol isn’t our life in Africa but nobody will say anything about alcohol. They’ll keep shouting ‘igbo igbo’ (weed). Why? Because, it’s the whites that make alcohol, finish.
“When we were young the same pastors, people that said gambling was bad, they are now the ones doing endorsement for gambling all over the place. Because gambling is now a white man business.
“All these gambling firms you’re seeing, they are white men businesses.
“There to extract the little that we have in our pockets.
“All the gambling platforms, selling you false hope.”
Listen to his speech below.
