Blakk Rasta, a reggae musician and political analyst, has addressed the criticism that fellow musician KK Fosu received recently for missing the late blogger John Claude’s funeral.
John Claude was killed in an accident that also involved musician Bless and KK Fosu.
KK Fosu denied knowing John Claude in a recent interview on Hitz FM in Accra. This denial has drawn strong criticism from certain Ghanaians.
According to reports, he claimed that the publicist’s passing had no effect on him and that he could go about his regular business.
Blakk Rasta responded to this by stating that he thought KK Fosu’s actions could be an indication of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
He mentioned that KK Fosu is afflicted with PTSD and underlined that it is a disorder that needs to be taken seriously, particularly in Ghana.
“You have to exercise caution, my brother, when situations like this occur. George Britton expressed his disappointment on social media early today over KK Fosu’s absence from the funeral. I will not be able to find out if he talked to KK Fosu before deciding to post something like that online. My sister and brother, among many others, were talking and writing about this topic on social media. Later on this morning, I began to hear interviews that KK Fosu had approved left, right, and center.
“… In fact, in one of the interviews, he said that ‘John Claude has died; should that end my life too? Nobody called me when we had the accident, and no blogger called me to solidarize with me or empathize with me. Today there’s a funeral and everybody wants me to attend. Whether they know I am in good condition or not in terms of my health’, but there was a big question that came. You were ready to go to the Ghana Music Awards to perform an Amakye Dede song and get paid at the time you were even freshly injured. How couldn’t you make it to the funeral? Well, so many answers could be given to this. My sickness got worse. He could have answered, but no, he didn’t go that way.”
He continued by saying, “What did KK Fosu say? He said, ‘Listen, I am a musician. That is how I feed my family. I was in the hospital when my family started coming in to greet me, my wife, and my children. I felt so down because I am the breadwinner of my family. They couldn’t eat anything while I was sick on the bed. Some other people had to come in and support.’ That was what KK Fosu said. I mean, straight away, it will hit so many people to say that this is quite disrespectful and unsympathetic. You still have your life, family members come to greet you, but one other person who was with you in the car and was a videographer of a good friend of yours who you invited on the trip lost his life. Do you care about his family?
“For all you know, KK Fosu is suffering from PTSD. So, to all the people out there pointing fingers at him, oh, you wanted to go for the Ghana Music Awards at the time you were in the hospital yet you couldn’t make it to the funeral and you are there talking nonsense, please start thinking that he might be suffering from PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It’s not a common sickness in Ghana,” Blakk Rasta stressed.
Watch Blakk Rasta’s comments below:
