In 1977 during the first tenure of Olusegun Obasanjo as a military Head of State, the government had issues with Fela Anikulapo-Kuti over his caustic criticisms of the regime.
One fateful day, February 18, 1977, a senior military officer ordered about a thousand soldiers to invade Fela's home he named Kalakuta Republic. They beat up everybody they found in the house, including his mother, the famous Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas Ransome-Kuti, who was allegedly thrown down from his one-storey building which they burnt to the ground.
There was outrage in the land over the action of the soldiers. To absolve itself of blame, the military government of Obasanjo set up a panel of enquiry to investigate the incident. At the end, the government issued a white paper from the findings of the panel and put the blame on Unknown soldiers".
