AKA murder was ‘well-funded’ hit – rapper’s dad

JOHANNESBURG - This Saturday it would be a year since the ‘execution-style’ killings of award-winning rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Jarryd Forbes and his close friend and celebrity chef Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane outside Durban’s Wish restaurant on February 10.

In a marathon two-hour long interview on popular DJ Hazel Mahazard’s podcast, Within with Hazel, the slain rapper’s father, Tony Forbes, said there was no doubt in his mind that his son was assassinated.

Replying to Hazel’s question as to whether he believes that AKA ‘was targeted in a hit’, Forbes said the following:

“Definitely he was assassinated… It took planning. It required resources. The guy walks around, targets Kiernan and shoots him in the head. How’s that random?” According to Forbes, he believes the second shooter was there to make sure ‘the job is done’.

He explained that he watched the

CCTV footage of his son being shot at point-blank range to ‘get some closure’.

In the shock footage doing the rounds on social media at the time, a man wearing a white beanie walks towards AKA and Motsoane before firing a single shot to the rapper’s head, who died instantly. The gunman then runs across the road and disappears.

The second shooter who could be seen waiting at a pole next to AKA’s vehicle, then draws his weapon and fires at the group from the other angle before fleeing with the first attacker.

It is believed that Motsoane died from a shot fired by a second shooter.

“So there were people with money behind it, who funded it. People who had access to resources,” the Mass Country rapper’s father continued. He added that he was not able to divulge more details on what ‘we have been briefed in relation to the case and the progress that has been made in the investigation, other than what is on public record’.