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Seun Kuti gives his reasoning for choosing Yahoo Yahoo over gambling.
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Rather Than Gambling, Do ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ — Seun Kuti advises youths
Controversial Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, has stated that he prefers online fraud, sometimes known as “Yahoo Yahoo,” to betting or gambling.
In a video, the lead singer of the Egypt 80 band pleaded with African youths to give up gambling and enjoy “Yahoo Yahoo” instead.
In an internet video, the artist declared that he does not demonise gamblers since he thinks that anyone who engages in the pastime has already lost.
He believes that being an internet fraudster is preferable to gambling since one is in control.
According to Kuti, gambling is a scheme created by white people to dupe them out of their meagre resources and sell them false hope.
Big Bird stressing his preference for internet fraud over gambling, argued the former is a lost course from the get-go.
Making case for his preference still, Seun noted ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ can be controlled, unlike gambling where the people are at the mercy of the scheme.
Kuti mentioned that no one is concerned about gambling because it is a white man’s business.
He continued by saying that those who once opposed gambling are now the ones advocating for it.
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He said: “I’ll never be the one to say, ‘you’re a bad person for gambling’. But I’m begging young African people. See your greatness ehn, doesn’t lie in all these gambling.
“Yes, they’ve made you feel like if you don’t own anything, if you cannot afford certain things, women won’t look at your face. You too that you are a woman, you won’t be able to attract a good man and all that.
“Yes, I understand, but not by gambling. Because in gambling, you’ve already lost. That’s a set up. You’ve lost already. Do the one that you’re in control.
“I prefer ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ to gambling, I swear. Do ‘Yahoo Yahoo’. Do ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ dey go rather than gambling; please.
“Just the way alcohol isn’t our life in Africa but nobody will say anything about alcohol. They’ll keep shouting ‘igbo igbo’ (weed). Why? Because, it’s the whites that make alcohol, finish.
“When we were young the same pastors, people that said gambling was bad, they are now the ones doing endorsement for gambling all over the place. Because gambling is now a white man business.
“All these gambling firms you’re seeing, they are white men businesses. There to extract the little that we have in our pockets. All the gambling platforms, selling you false hope.”