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Outspoken firebrand: Blakk Rasta is a reggae singer
and radio personality from Accra, Ghana. Born in the north of the country, he
first got inspired by Nigerian reggae singer Ras Kimono after meeting him in
1993.
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Popular Ghanaian reggae singer "Blakk Rasta" has
been summoned to appear before a parliamentary committee after he said that
most of the West African country's legislators use marijuana, officials said on
Friday.
Speaker Doe Adzaho has
issued an order for the musician, whose real name is Abubakar Ahmed, to answer
to lawmakers for damaging the reputation of parliament.
The comments, made on
radio station HitzFM, angered many lawmakers and Ahmed could be prosecuted or
be made to withdraw the comments and publicly apologize, a senior clerk told
Reuters.
The 40-year-old musician,
famous in Ghana for a song eulogizing Barack Obama that earned him a rare
dinner meeting with the U.S. president when he visited Accra in 2009, said he
was misunderstood.
"What I said was
that about 80 percent of parliamentarians all over the world may have used
marijuana," he told Reuters.
He said the comment was
part of his fight to legalize the drug.
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