#Where Is OurMoney: What Fela Kuti Tells Us
As Nigerian youth all over the world protest the nation's missing oil billions, if I may be forgiven, I will like to recommend we all listen to this song and read the lyrics, of 'Army Arrangement,' by late Sage Fela Anikulapo Kuti. It serves as a reminder and prompts us on the dangerous déjà vu and ground-hog day path we are upon. These are the predictable steps after the Whistleblower is fired:
Lyrics: Army Arrangement (Fela Kuti and Egypt 80, courtesy, Afrobeatmusic.net )
Whether you like or you no like
after you hear this true talk
if you like e good
CHORUS: Ge ge
if you no like you hang
CHORUS: Ge ge
if you hang you go die
CHORUS: Ge ge
you go die for nothing
CHORUS: Ge ge
you go carry your body go police station
you die e wrongfully
CHORUS: Ge ge, Ge Ge, Ge (Repeat verse)
Man dey suffer him no fit talk na condition
man dey suffer him no fit talk na condition too
suffer dey Africa, ba ba da ba
I suffer dey ba ba da ba
condition dey e ba ba da ba
Me I no say you be African e man
and we dey suffer ba ba da ba
which condition you dey I don't know
the condition me I dey me I know
My condition don't teach make I act
Oh
If your condition today make you shake
and you still dey not talk the may you feel
make you open your eyes very well
to hear the truth talk me I dey talk
listen make you dey gree for me
Every day and night you dey hear me talk
One day yourself you go gree with me
to dey act the way as you dey feel
remember if you no act your own
one day of course we must die
Nigeria gettin money
foreign money from oversea
announcement start to happen
newspaper carry dem paper
radio dey shout for studio
Obasanjo turn vocalist
Yaraduwa road manager
every government statement
seven billion Naira missing
missing from oversea
foreign currency scandal
dey start to arrest everybodyo
e no finish, e no finish, e no finish
doctors, lawyers, auxilliars
Ingeniors, photographers
all of dem kirikiri
10 to 15 years of jail
after one year inside jail
civilian government take over
Dem releasy all of dem
Dem say dem be innocentio
e no finish, e no finish, e no finish
Two point eight billion Naira
Oil money is still missing
Dey set up inquiry
Dey say money no lost eo
Dey dabaru everybody
supervisor Obasanjo
Dey say make him no talk o
Money no lost dem shout again
Inquiry come closeoo
e no finish, e no finish, e no finish
election story inko
Obasanjo plan am very well
him take all politicians
who rule Nigeria before
the same old politicians
who spoil Nigeria before
Obasanjo carry all of dem
All of dem dey there now
e no finish, e no finish, e no finish
the young Africans dey get two ears for head
dem get two eye too
Dem dey see the thing wey dey happen
Dem dey hear am too
Few people dey fat with biggy money
and the rest dey hungry
me Fela, I challengie Obasanjo
na way he the all the time
make him carry me go any court
I go open book for am
Now whyo government e we dey do
eh bamihoo
na weak e government e dey oo
eh barri bao
now barri bao
now paddi paddi government we dey
eba me o
CHORUS: yeah
plenty money
CHORUS: yeah
plenty money
CHORUS: yeah
paddi paddi, arrangeni
yeah whyo, whyo, economics, yeah
I am together, gimme the answer
CHORUS: Army arrangement
paddi paddi ad am together
CHORUS: Army arrangement
Economic ad them together
CHORUS: Army arrangement
Division or multiplication
CHORUS: Army arrangement
Mathematicians, put am together
CHORUS: Army arrangement
Division or multiplication
CHORUS: Army arrangement
One asnwer you get
CHORUS: Army arrangement
money, money, put am together
CHORUS: Army arrangement
CHORUS: youdi, yousile
CHORUS:
one day maybe one day
those say dey steal money for government
It is time we take it all the way and clear out this chronic jagajaga. It is time for a new path, a new future and a new Nigeria. Are you up to it? I am!
#WhereIsOurMoney #NoMoreChancing #WeNoBeMugun
Dr. Peregrino Brimah
http://ENDS.ng [Every Nigerian Do Something]
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