Dancehall artiste Bounty Killer didn’t mince phrases on Saturday as he shared an necessary replace on a disabled younger man from Tower Hill, St. Andrew, who he mentioned has wanted a wheelchair for years and reached out for assist from his member of Parliament, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, to no avail.
The Prime Minister has been going through severe warmth this week after saying hefty wage packages for him and your entire cupboard, some as a lot as 250-300% will increase over the following three years. Many Jamaicans have taken to the streets to protest the transfer, particularly since different public servants have obtained meager will increase of some million whereas the Prime Minister is about to gather near $30 million subsequent 12 months, excluding different advantages funded by inflation-battered and exhausted taxpayers.
As a part of his Bounty Killer Basis in collaboration with Jamaican Canadian actress and baby prodigy Jazmin Headley, the artist visited the Maxfield Park Youngsters’s House, the place he shared {that a} disabled younger man, Andre Coleman, is lastly about to make use of an electrical chair Headley managed to acquire overseas.
In line with Bounty, he was moved when he first met Coleman because the younger man who was born with a locomotor incapacity, and he would typically drag himself alongside the highway to get from one level to a different. The pissed off artist particularly referred to as out Holness for not doing something to help.
“I’m certain that the MP is aware of of Andre and his situation so why there hasn’t been a single effort to help him in anyhow or type says so much about who cares for the ppl or it’s simply their shares. I solely met Andre like one 12 months in the past now within the streets partying lively and my coronary heart simply couldn’t be comfortable every instances I noticed him traversing the streets on his arms,” Bounty Killer mentioned.
The artist mentioned that leisure determine, Father Witty from Uptown Mondays, had raised funds from the weekly dancehall occasion to assist Coleman get a wheelchair which assisted him for some time, however an electrical chair was a greater choice given Coleman’s wants.
“Kudos for the trouble electrical wheelchairs probably not low cost although however the MP may’ve sourced one with out even had purchase it out of his pockets. there’s a true residing god they usually mentioned a toddler shall prepared the ground cause being I went to the youngsters’s dwelling yesterday it’s bcuz of this little tremendous baby meet her @realjazzj [Jazmin Headley] she’s the one who despatched the wheelchair for Andre and the barrels for the children,” Bounty Killer mentioned.
The artist added, “ANYWAYS UNUH TELL MI WHO IS Andre Coleman MP UNUH GONNA BE SO ASHAMED.”
Followers of the artiste additionally shared their displeasure on the lack of motion by the MP of the world, whereas others expressed pleasure at Bounty Killer doing what he may.
“I similar to how bounty put a smile on the child face,” one fan wrote.
Andre Coleman additionally shared a photograph of himself and Bounty Killer at a celebration final 12 months, the place he mentioned the artiste has been searching for him.
“A from a taller time @grungaadzilla a glance out fimi hundreds a respect 1general,” he captioned the photograph.
The artiste additionally responded, “Weh unuh deh wen a duh highway that was in pandemic Regulation Thursdays clock burn penn.”