Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has hinted on why his son, Folarin Falana aka Falz continues to embarrass the government.
Falana said his son’s upbringing didn’t only shape him into the man he is today but is also the sole reason for his actions towards the government.
He explained his young son grew up seeing him being arrested and detained regularly, wondering why it was so and asking if his dad was a criminal.
Speaking at the 2nd anniversary of the Oluyinka Odumakin Lecture in Lagos, Falana said: “One of these guys one day said, ‘Falana talk to your son; he should stop embarrassing the government’. I said which government? You mean that boy who is an adult? Can I give you his number so you can talk to him? But be careful because when that boy was growing up, I was being arrested from time to time. So, the only language he understood was detention, arrest, and the rest of them.
“One day, when that boy was six, he asked his mother, “Our teacher taught us that only criminals were arrested. Is my father a criminal? Why is he always being arrested? And the mother had to say that in Nigeria, under the military, only two sets of people were arrested: Criminal suspects and political suspects. Political suspects are those who are out to expose the criminality of the government. That is what you see going on.”
Falana’s disclosure is coming a few days after his popular rapper son, Falz released a new song titled ‘Yakubu,’ which featured his colleague, Vector.