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Tina’s Death: Wizkid Calls Buhari ‘Clueless’ Over Police Brutality In Nigeria

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Jun 1, 2020.

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Ayo Balogun, Nigerian afro beat sensation, better known as Wizkid, has reacted to police Brutality in Nigeria and United States.

The multiple award winning artiste in a post on his official twitter page lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump, his US counterpart, over their inability to rein in on marauding police officers.

Wizkid described both president as clueless adding that the only difference between the two is Trump’s ability to use Twitter than Buhari.

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The ‘Ojuelegba’ crooner’s utterance is coming on the heels of recent cases of extra-judicial killings by the police in the two countries.

George Floyd, a black man was recently killed in the US by an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).

Floyd’s death has sparked violent protests, civil disobedience and social unrest in major US cities.

Consequently, 20 mayors have imposed lockdown on their cities.

Floyd’s death came in the wake alleged killing of Tina, a 16-year-old girl, at Iyana Oworo area of Lagos, by an officer of the Nigerian police.

The two incidents had sparked outrage in Nigeria and across the world with many taking to social media platforms to vent their spleen while demanding for justice.

Joining the fray, Wizkid took to his Twitter page to condemn the level at which police officers are killing unarmed citizens.

“Police is kill black Americans and Nigerian police kill Nigerians. No man can sort this matter. God save us,” he had written on Saturday.

In a follow-up tweet on Monday, Wizkid said the inability of both president to end extrajudicial killing only attested to how clueless they are.

“Buhari and Trump are same person. Lol. The one different between them is that one knows how to use Twitter than the other. Clueless!,” Wizkid wrote in a mixture of Pidgin and English.