{"id":9682,"date":"2016-06-29T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2016-06-29T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:33:53","slug":"yola-based-popular-musician-missing-after-releasing-song-accusing-apc-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9682","title":{"rendered":"Yola based popular musician missing after releasing song accusing APC of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A popular musician in northeast Nigeria has gone missing just days after releasing a scathing song accusing local lawmakers of corruption, police and family said Wednesday. Ado Dahiru Daukaka went missing in the Adamawa state capital of Yola after he left his house early Friday to offer dawn prayers at a mosque.<\/p>\n

His new song accuses politicians from President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s ruling party of corruption and predicts they will be voted out in the 2019 election. The song \u201cGyara Kayanka\u201d, or \u2018Put your house in order\u2019 in the local Hausa language, accuses local lawmakers of being selfish and corrupt.<\/p>\n

The family of the singer said he was a political target. \u201cIt is obvious his disappearance is an abduction by some interests who are infuriated by his latest song which exposed corruption among legislators at the state house of assembly,\u201d<\/p>\n


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Daukaka\u2019s relative Atiku Mustapha told AFP. \u201cWe believe they abducted him as a warning to other critics like him. They just want to muzzle critics,\u201d Mustapha said. Hadiza Adamu, one of the singer\u2019s two wives, said he had no enemies. \u201cMy husband is not known to be at loggerheads with any one. The only explanation we could provide is that he could have angered some powerful interests with his songs,\u201d said Adamu, who gave birth just five days before he went missing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on whoever is behind his disappearance to have pity on us and release him unharmed,\u201d she said. Adamawa state police spokesman Othman Abubakar said an investigation has been launched but declined to comment if the disappearance was linked to the song. Daukaka became popular following Nigeria\u2019s return to civilian rule in 1999 with a hit in praise of then-state governor Murtala Nyako. Local singers are fierce critics in northern Nigeria with their songs that tackle everything from forbidden love to political discontent.<\/p>\n

One of the country\u2019s most popular singers, Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, was imprisoned by Buhari during his short-lived reign as military ruler in the 80\u2019s. Kuti\u2019s arrest on charges of currency smuggling were dismissed by human rights groups who argued he was a political detainee after criticising the government.<\/p>\n

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