Sarabi Band Featuring Juliani Launch The Song ‘FUATA SHERIA’ To Commemorate Kenya At 50

‘There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice. But there must never be a time when we fail to PROTEST’. Elie Weisel

The Sarabi Band and Juliani are releasing a song, ‘Fuata Sheria’, on 11th of December, the eve of Jamhuri day. Fuata Sheria is about the state of Kenya’s politics and of the failure of Kenya’s citizens to take responsibility for their contribution to the corrupt status quo.

The song is a call on Kenyans to retrospect and judge, not just the political leaders, but to judge themselves as well, and to ‘fuata sheria’ , to respect the rule of law.

The song was written after Boniface Mwangi shared a list of the scandals in Kenya’s politics from the last 50 years with George Nderitu, the Sarabi Band Manager. They discovered that one consistent thing on that list of scandals was a Government- appointed commission of inquiry.

Together they invited Juliani to collaborate on a song.

The song looks back at the maize scandal, the missing free primary education money, the Kazi kwa Vijana scandal and many others.

But the song also blames the mwananchi for accepting bribes and bribing when it is convenient to do so.

In his signature voice, towards the end of the song, Juliani says that the tears of the perpetrators has drowned the blood of the victims, in reference to the post election violence. He also mocks the commission of enquiries formed over the years by saying that they take the commission but do not tell the truth.

Finally, in regard to Westgate and in a unity call, Juliani says, ‘ You are not my tribe, but you are my blood type. But it doesn’t have to take a tragedy to know that’.

The song will be released on the eve of  Jamhuri day, 11 December.

Please use the link below for behind the scenes of images of the Fuata Sheria video.

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