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Popular Nigerian singer, Azeez Adeshina Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley has touched down Nigeria.
The Marlian Music executive who was out of the country has cut his trip short following the arrest of his artistes.
The Marlian president who clearly does not play with his musical acts took the next available flight to Nigeria to fight for his artistes.
Taking to his Instagram story, Marley uploaded a video of him arriving in Nigeria as some Marlian fans hailed him.
He captioned the video with :
“TOUCHED DOWN NIGERIA
ALHAMDULILAH”.
This is coming hours after he took to his Twitter page to call for the release of Zinoleesky and others
The president of Marlian Music in a series of tweets lamented over the level of injustice done by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to his label crew.
He noted how he was once harassed by the officials and how the same maltreatment meted on him was given to his associates.
Naira Marley who wasn’t in the country at the time of writing called out the agency to release his boys.
Confirming Mohbad’s release, he revealed that Zino, Shubomi, micee and dosky were still in their custody and were under a lot of stress.
“What is happening to my brothers is disgusting. The injustice is unfair and this is beginning to look like a pattern. First me now my artists. Free Zinoleesky, free shubomi, free micee and dosky”
“NDLEA has released Mohbad after physically assaulting him. Zinoleesky is still in custody. The boys are under a lot of stress after being ambushed in the middle of the night with no warrant. I’m urgently returning to Lagos now now now”.
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