On Sunday evening, just before retiring to bed, I made a quick surf on X(formerly Twitter), to update myself on what else was being said, and what was trending. I went through the first few files, and just as I was about to log off, I came across a headline: “Counsellor Lutterodt incites Ga youth against Odo Broni.” I paused, read the headline again. Especially in an environment where headlines are perpetually opposed to the actual content, I decided to click the video to hear things for myself- and I was horrified by the things that came out of his vocal cords.
Did he say that? That was the first question I asked myself. For those familiar with Counselor Lutterodt and his social commentaries, making controversial comments isn’t beyond him. That is how he fuels his presence on mainstream and social media platforms. He thrives in the ecosystem of outlandish commentaries. But what he said about the late Daddy Lumba’s young wife, Odo Broni, asking Ga Youth to pick up weapons and enter her residence at East Legon, and “exhume” the late musician’s body, is a clear call for violence against Mrs Priscilla Fosu (Odo Broni and her children).
Post Daddy Lumba’s death and the unfortunate issues surrounding his private life, which has empowered dimwits to be attacking his legacy on Titkok shows as well as his young wife( and the family head, Opanyin Kofi Wusu aka Abusuapanyin Tupac), Counselor Lutterodt has taken a ringside seat, right in the heart of it, denigrating Daddy Lumba’s young wife, and including unprintable words against her person. Counselor Lutterodt belongs to the so called Team Legal Wives, a group of disgruntled characters and their assigns, partly empowered by some relatives of the late musician, who have made it their business to not only drag the late musician’s personal life and artistry through their own condescending private lives, but that of his wife, Odo Broni, the children, and those associated with them.
And this very group organised two smelly press conferences, and, in the presence of one of his nephews, Miller attacked the musician’s memory. The pressers were so smelly, and that was evident in how the texts were read by those assigned to come into the light and speak. Ironically, and without any shame, this group is desperately trying to organise a so-called “celebration of life” in honour of the musician, the very same person they continue to denigrate from the very first day, forgetting their actions negatively impact the mental health of his children. And it will be naive for anyone not to know the motive behind the desperation to “celebrate” him.
Not too long ago, Counsellor Lutterodt and a section of his Team Legal Wives (most of whose prominent members have multiple partners and also THIRD and FOURTH wives, husband-snatchers, etc.) organised a fundraising activity to raise money, but nobody knows how much was raised. So for him to now come back and incite Ga Youth against Odo Broni, shows the desperation to keep the existing feud alive, whilst profiting from it. “ We will not wait for the police,” he said on the entertainment show of a private radio station, and further went ahead to ask the Ga youth to pick up weapons, including “Pckaxe,” enter the late musician’s hometown and exhume his body.
Counsellor Lutterodt clearly has zero respect for the Ga youth he wants to force themselves onto the compound. Since gaining prominence on the media scene, have never heard him say there are job opportunities for the many jobless youth in the Ga land, but when it comes to violence, he thinks they are specialists in that. How sickening. It’s sad, but Counsellor Lutterodt wouldn’t say what he said if some disgruntled relatives of the late musician didn’t feed his stupidity with fake news, just to attack his young wife. Just to cyberbully her and think he can get away with it.
Unfortunately, and this time around, he will be made to face the law for inciting violence against the household. And I pray the family takes him on…. Counsellor Lutterodt and his assigns were in this country when Daddy Lumba was bringing Odo Broni in and out of the country, introducing her to his legion of fans, and publicly praising her in their presence. Why didn’t he and the marauding assigns confront Daddy Lumba? Why didn’t he even publicly call Lumba out for desecrating the sanctity of his “marriage” to another woman? Why didn’t he? He is a man who doesn’t shy away from speaking on matters he feels strongly about.
Why didn’t he confront Lumba? Why didn’t he confront Lumba when he was introducing the young wife to the high-profile persons in this country? He didn’t see it, or didn’t exist on planet earth? Suddenly, and with the unfortunate demise of Lumba, he has developed cojones and “springing up” from platform to platform, attacking his memory and that of the surviving partners. Being an egghead cyberbully is not a strength. It is crass. It is FOOLISHNESS. And it is MORONIC. And madness has to end. At some point. But then again i ask: WHAT CRIME DID LUMBA COMMIT? WHAT WAS HIS OFFENSE against Lutterodt and his friends? Was Lumba the only man to have had children with different women or to have walked out of a marriage? He alone knows the reason why. Or is this a paid assignment to ruin his legacy?
But how does one think he or she can ruin the legacy of a man whose music didn’t need much push to spike into our social lives? With over 30 albums and countless hits, how does one think he can undermine that? From his mainstay highlife to gospel, his legendary Status is established, and, over time, as well as from his painful absence, that will be abundantly clear. It’s unfortunate that some of the relatives who ought to be the vanguard of his legacy are partly contributing to the assault on his legacy. But they will fail.
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, now a Grammy Lifetime Achievement winner, was known for his strange private life. If Daddy Lumba had attempted a fraction of what he did in private life, knowing the countless assaults on his memory, only the heavens can tell what else we may be witnessing. After his death, and out of common sense, the family has kept his legendary AFROBEAT status alive. Fela is noted for his artistic prowess, not necessarily because he had multiple wives. His AFROBEAT has become a platform for many Nigerian artists, who are performing to a global audience and taking big DOLLARS.
Then there was Bob Marley and his issues, but his legacy is an unwavering buffer of GRACE, FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT and endless DOOR OPENING moments for his lineage. Daddy Lumba is in the same legendary status or close to it. We were witnesses to how the world received his unfortunate passing and the tributes thereafter. We saw the amazing tribute paid to his memory by Davido, the award-winning and globally recognised Nigerian AFROBEAT artist.
The issues after Daddy Lumba’s death are annoying, but not without a solution. And the solution lies with the young wife, the children, his manager (he wants to be known as Lumba’s boy), the well-meaning relatives, including Abusuapanyin Tupac, friends who played prominent roles in his musical life, to protect his legacy. The Legion of his countless fanbase scattered around the world must also take an active part in this. They honoured him during his lifetime without being forced; this is the time when the family needs them the most.
They should not allow unhappy souls to run a filthy rake through that which he built with sweat and pain. It should never happen. It must be protected for the NOW and the FUTURE.
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