France riots: Onanuga urges security operatives to call Charly Boy to order over ‘irresponsible’ post
Bayo Onanuga, the media director of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has tackled Charly Boy, the singer, for allegedly inciting Nigerian youths.
On Saturday, Charly Boy addressed the ongoing riots in France over the killing of a teenager by a police officer.
Naël, a 17-year-old boy, was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre, a French town, on June 27.
The development has sparked widespread unrest across major cities in the country, with many people hitting the streets to protest the teenager’s death.
The musician took to social media to urge Nigerian youths to take a cue from the France riots and “fight the system letting them down”.
But reacting via his Twitter page, Onanuga described the musician’s post as “highly irresponsible”.
The renowned journalist also urged the security operatives in the country to “call him to order immediately”.
“Highly irresponsible for a 73-year-old man Charly Boy asking ‘exceptional Nigerian youths’ to burn down the ‘criminal enterprise’, which he called Nigeria. The security agencies should call this old man to order immediately,” he wrote.
CHARLY BOY CLARIFIES CONTROVERSIAL POST
In a follow-up comment to his original post, the 73-year-old said he did not incite the youths as assumed.
“I no ask anybody to go burn anywhere. As it concerns France, I feel is their Kama hunting them. I only charged the exceptional Nigerian youths to take their destiny into their hands. If the judiciary fails to dispense justice, the last hope of the common man should be the common man,” he wrote.
