Nigerian rapper Folarin Falana popularly known as ‘Falz’ has revealed that he expected the criticism he got after releasing ‘This is Nigeria’ video.
Recall that the video captures pressing issues facing the country, such as, Chibok and Dapchi girls, political thieves, Fulani herdsmen, BB Naija and “yahoo yahoo”.
Following the release of the song, the singer was criticised and treatened by The Muslim Right Concern (MURIC) group, for featuring girls in hijab dancing ‘shaku shaku’.
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Speaking during an interview on SoundCity FM, Falz said: “I expected the reaction, I expected discussion, I expected controversial discussion.
“It’s pretty obvious that the girls in the Hijab are very symbolic with the Chibok girls that were taken away.
“Over 200 of them, at the end of the day, after the government’s extremely sluggish response, half of them were brought back.
“I feel like we need to stay at a heightened level of social consciousness and political awareness out here because everyone is seemingly distracted by entertainment… that we sort of forget we’re facing a lot of struggles as a country.
“At the end of the day, money is very important. People need to make money, even I need to make money. But I feel like at every interval we need to stop and think. We need to pause and look around. Are we becoming too insensitive?” he asked.