The President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, has defended his controversial ‘kundusi’ remark, brushing off the wave of mockery it has sparked among Nigerians.
Akinsanya made the defence while speaking with the delegates of the union in a viral video on Tuesday.
According to him, he is uneducated and could probably be bad at expressing himself in the English language, but he trained his children well, and they are now citizens of the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
Recall that the union leader recently erroneously mispronounced kudos as “kundusi” while commending the good works of the union members in the Federal Capital Territory.
Following this, Akinsanya noted that rather than going to school, he ventured into the transport sector, where he started as a bus conductor.
“If you and my children come out to express yourself, I’m not sure you can beat them, they are highly educated. I trained my children properly with money. My children are citizens of America and the United Kingdom. I worked hard to get there.
“‘Kundusi!’ What happened? Grammars are too much. Grammar won’t finish Nigeria, I might not understand the English language, but I understand Yoruba,” he said
The union leader also relished his beginning, stressing, “I started as a bus conductor, then as a treasurer of a unit of NURTW, to unit chairman, to branch deputy treasurer, to branch treasurer, to branch chairman, to state chairman, and then to national president. I worked hard to get here. I am not educated.
“So they are mocking me for saying ‘kundusi’, is my child not Qudus? You that you are educated, what did you do?,” he queried.
Akinsanya’s children are known to be in the defense of their father anytime he goofed on social media with a bad expression.
In 2022, one of MC Oluomo’s sons, known as King West on Instagram, came to his father’s defence after critics labelled him a lout. Responding to a comment that accused his father of benefiting from national wealth due to his ties with President Bola Tinubu, King West wrote:
“For those calling my father a tout, if my father were your father, you would never lack love, care, or protection. Get a father like mine.”
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