Reggae star

Buju Banton has declared that he will not wear face masks despite the Jamaican

government insisting that they are necessary to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

“Jamaican

people need to wake up. Mi nah wear no mask cause mask nuh mek fi man,” he said

in a video he posted on Instagram on Wednesday morning. “Free mi people dem,

free my people now.”

In the rant

that was shared in three video, Buju Banton insisted that the Jamaican people were

being fooled.

“Wi waa done wid dis mask-wearing bulls**t inna Jamaica. Who fi dead ago dead and who nah go dead, haffi jus live. We tired of you intellectual fools trying to tell us how to live our lives,” he said.

“You are all

touting a line and putting the Jamaican people in abject fear and driving us

all to poverty. What have you done for all those who you have laid off and mek

dem business close early? Jamaican people need to wake up and mi done wid di f**kery.”

In the

second video, he said that people are being lied to about COVID-19. Making

reference to Michael Jackson and Bill Cosby, he said that people need to question

what they are often told.

“Don’t you

see that they have been lying to us for all this time? Why should we believe

them now? How ironic it is that this virus act as if it is more intelligent

than man,” he questioned.

Buju Banton

also claimed that he would not lead the Jamaican people down a path of destruction,

unlike other entertainers.

“First and

foremost, Jamaicans unuh sell unuh vote enuh, and from unuh sell unuh vote unuh

nuh have no sense. So, anything can happen right now. Wise up and stand up. A

unuh last chance before unuh reach the precipice,” he said, stating that he

does not have an agenda.

“My love for

you supersedes all that this world has to offer. I will not join the other

entertainers and trick you. I will not lead you on a path of destruction. I

have always been sincere and true to you my people… A lot of people are

benefitting by touting and pushing my people down that path, which is totally

destructive, here in Jamaica and in America.”