CartoonBoyTV: Kogi People Deserved Better Life than What they are Going through - Prince Seid Ademu speaks

Cartoonists are supposed to keep a jaundiced eye on democracy and those threatening it, whether the threats come from outside or inside the country. Such artistic prowess has a positive influence for change. But in a State like Kogi, it rather  exacerbate tensions at the helm of affairs that the opposite. 

Prince Seid Ademu is a Kogi born, fast rising Cartoonist, the Managing Director (MD) CartoonBoyTV. A mere tap on Seid from a deep sleep is enough for him to present  comic strip, a drawing of (someone) in a simplified or exaggerated way. 

An avalanches of seid cartoon did not go down well with Alhaji Yaya Bello led APC government. CartoonBoy TV at a certain point became a threat to Kogi State Government. In an interview with Koginfo online news reporter, this cartoonist expressed annoyance over his arrest for criticizing the state through cartoon about none payment of workers salary, absence of  genuine physical and infrastructural development . 

Prince Seid Ademu with HE Governor Yaya Bello

He was forced to work with them kept him under Police watch constantly. All forms of palliatives were given to him to cushion the devastating blow of his cartoon on the government.  Until one day he eloped. Because of the absence of freedom to express himself to fight for the freedom of his people going through hardship pains and agony of Staff Verification Exercise amidst hunger.  

"I was talking about the government about not payment of salary... the government sent police to arrest me for my house 3 a.m. snap me naked that if I do cartoons again I'll post it,  I do two weeks at a division police station lokoja, after two weeks the government release me"

"the deputy governor invited name give me new phone and put me on hundred thousand every month, the governor's see me in the program or call me, take picture with me, the put the picture on a seneca and give to me, they asked me not to do that once again, they asked me not to speak the truth about the local government allocation again" 

"I was not free and happy working with them, there was no development no job opportunity no electricity no salary, no local government allocation for 5 years, I decided to drop their car and travel back, to Ghana to start the cartoon and the write-up to make sure I free the people of kogi state, and they threaten me that I should not return back to my homeland again, for 3 years now I've not been to kogi state, struggling to survive making sure I reach my people with the truth, I cannot be joining why my people are suffering, this is why I leave the ruling government because I was never with them before, kogi state must be free this is why I'm doing cartoons"

" I am disappointed with kogi state government off APC. I'm calling of the EFCC to to write it down right now and start asking questions, this car you are seeing is more than 1000 across the state, 1 is about 1.6 million naira, a state that don't have money to pay salary, how can the state buy a car for people like me they are not working with the local government, this is the reason why people are suffering in kogi state, a state that cannot create electricity, people are sleeping in darkness, a state that has no transportation system, a state that has no single job opportunity, a state that has not agriculture, the state that has no good hospital healthcare, a state that has no sport facility, a state that cannot give people good water, a state that has no road network, a government that has no local government areas, the government that cannot give local government allocation for 5 years, it is clearly a stolen mandate government, because if you are elected by the people you won't be this weekend, a government that born a woman alive to become the winner of the election, a government that use government car's to snatch away by lord paper, a government that use gun to chase people away from the polling unit, the people are crying for justice, justice is what we need, kogi state must be free, we need our mandate back, God bless kogi state, God bless Musa wada, God bless prince seid MD Cartoon BoyTV"