{"id":180970,"date":"2014-04-30T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/popular-musician-arrested-by-sss-for-singing-against-president-jonathans-visit-to-kano\/"},"modified":"2014-04-30T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:07:00","slug":"popular-musician-arrested-by-sss-for-singing-against-president-jonathans-visit-to-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/04\/30\/popular-musician-arrested-by-sss-for-singing-against-president-jonathans-visit-to-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Musician Arrested By SSS For Singing Against President Jonathan&#8217;s Visit To Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>A popular musician in Kano, Ahmed Audi Zarewa, has been reportedly arrested by the State Security Service, SSS, for recording a song to protest against President Goodluck Jonathan. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a report posted on El-Rufai.org, the artiste was said to have been arrested by the SSS on Tuesday for allegedly recording a version of a Hausa folk song titled \u201cZuwan Mai Malfa Kano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song was said to have been recorded by Ahmed to protest President Jonathan and his entourage&#8217;s singing and dancing rally held in Kano the very morning that more than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped from a high school in Chibok, Borno State.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/c011jonathan_pix.jpg\" vspace=\"5\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>* President Jonathan, in the middle, dancing at a rally in Kano State a day after hundreds of school girls were kidnapped in Borno State<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed was said to believe the action of the president was a clear illustration of his administration\u2019s lack of respect for the Nigerian people.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the musician was placed under arrest by the SSS in a clear violation of his rights to freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a link you can listen to the song \u201cZuwan Mai Malfa Kano\u201d:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-180970-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/el-rufai.org\/zawera.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/el-rufai.org\/zawera.mp3\">http:\/\/el-rufai.org\/zawera.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"traqlidiv\" readability=\"8\">\n<p id=\"traqlip\">\n\t\t\t<span id=\"traqlitext\">If you wish to know how this story develops, use\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/e0c7.jpg\" data-style=\"http:\/\/traq.li\/custom\/naij.com\" class=\"traqlibutton\" onerror=\"this.style.visibility='hidden';\" data-groupid=\"3\" data-storyref=\"65543\" data-storyurl=\"http:\/\/news.naij.com\/65543.html\" data-position=\"end\" \/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Know more about this news? Update the info!<\/b><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular musician in Kano, Ahmed Audi Zarewa, has been reportedly arrested by the State Security Service, SSS, for recording a song to protest against President Goodluck Jonathan. According to a report posted on El-Rufai.org, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}