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Veteran Fuji musician, Adewale Ayuba, says most up-and-coming musicians are not embracing Fuji music due to its huge financial involvement in its production.<\/p>\n

Ayuba told newsmen in Lagos that most budding artists preferred to groom their musical talents along such genres as hip-hop and Afro music.<\/p>\n

He said that this was because embracing hip-hop would require minimal amount of money for production.<\/p>\n

The veteran said Fuji music required organising musical bands that the leader must pay after each show or public engagement.<\/p>\n

Ayuba added that the owner of the band must also buy different musical instruments for the band boys to perform during engagements and rehearsals.<\/p>\n

According to him, having a handful of up-and-coming musicians interested in Fuji music is a sad development because Fuji is indigenous to Nigeria.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWe must not jettison ours for the foreign music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have many up-and-coming artistes who are ready to embrace Fuji music but when they realise the financial commitment involved, they run to embrace Afro, hip-hop, rhymes and blues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not happy with this development because I believe we are supposed to promote everything that is ours as a nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuji is our music but Afro, hip-hop, Rhymes and blues are not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ayuba also said that the activities of pirates had worsened the entire situation making musicians to become more discouraged.<\/p>\n

He said that the few musicians who embraced Fuji had spent hugely to promote their genre but their efforts were being sabotaged by pirates.<\/p>\n

The musician urged the federal government to give stringent sanctions against pirates in order to curb their activities and ensure musicians get good returns on their investments.<\/p>\n

He said life imprisonment should be the appropriate sanction for pirates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am appealing to the federal government to sanction pirates by making them serve life imprisonment after prosecution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we have one or two pirates sentenced to life imprisonment, others in the business will abandon the illegal activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cPirates have made life difficult for everyone in the entertainment industry; government must wade in quickly.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany artistes have developed some health problems due to the activities of pirates,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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