Buju doesn’t need to apologise – Lutan Fyah

The anticipation for Buju Banton’s Long Walk To Freedom concert slated for March 16 at the National Stadium is almost at a climax. And while many will be going to the show for the music, there’s also an expectation that Buju will address his incarceration.

But reggae artiste Lutan Fyah believes that although Buju needs to speak to his fans, he should not feel obligated to apologise to anyone for the time he spent in prison.

“Why should Buju apologise, and to who Buju should apologise to? There’s no reason to apologise. He did nothing unto no individual here. He destroyed nobody’s life. He only may owe his family an apology, and that’s only if they demand it,” Lutan Fyah said.

“What Buju did affected him, and him do him time,” he added.

Buju, a Grammy award-winning entertainer, was convicted of drug trafficking on February 22, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. Although he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, he was released on December 8, 2018.

Meanwhile, Lutan Fyah argued that the people demanding an apology are not Buju’s fans.

“Some of these people who talking about Buju Banton should come and apologise, they don’t even like Buju and his music. They just picking around,” he said.

DRUG CONVICTION

He said that if Buju intends to apologise, then he should find other ways of doing it.

“What I would say is that this show at the National Stadium, if I was Buju, I would do a free show. That would be my apology, and maybe invite some more of his friends, the people that he grew up with in Jamaican music, the Wayne Wonder, Bounty Killer, and the Beenie man. We deh ya wid him how long,” he said.

While acknowledging that Buju’s drug conviction goes against Rastafarian norms, Lutan Fyah said that everyone makes mistakes.

“It goes against our Rastafarian conscious to be involved in those things, but a man is just a man, and all kind of people involved in these kind of things,” he said.