Islamic Group Urges NBC To Ban Portable’s New Song

On Monday, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, was petitioned by the Islamic organization Muslim Rights Concern, or MURIC, to outlaw the album “Kuku Do Ritual” by Habeeb Okikiola, better known as Portable.

The group’s director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, gave reasons why the song ought to be prohibited in a statement, claiming that the new album will inspire youths and other Nigerians to embrace ritual.

The group calls the song repugnant, abhorrent, atrocious, and a flagrant assault on African and Nigerian values.

Akintola also claimed that Portable’s most recent song had degraded human existence to the level of common ants, which can be exterminated beneath human feet without hesitation or repercussions.

His claims were further supported by the instance of three youths who were apprehended trying to murder a 13-year-old. In January 2022, four teenagers living in Abeokuta, Ogun State, killed the girlfriend of one of them for a money ritual. In Bayelsa State, they did the same.The group issued a call to action to all good men, moms in Nigeria, and leaders from the Muslim and Christian faiths to come up against the ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ lunacy and ritual slaughter of children, whose ambassador has just recorded an appalling song in their favor.The traditional rulers of Nigeria, who are in charge of tradition, were also urged to take quick action.

Further appeal was also made to religious leaders to put pressure on the authorities to stop the circulation and broadcast of the album on any radio or television station and through any medium whatsoever.

NBC, the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB; the Nigerian Copyright Commission, NCC; and the Performing Musicians’ Association of Nigeria, PMAN were also urged to take necessary action.