Tributes for the late Kiernan Forbes are flooding in and the latest to honour him is his friend K.O. The musician shared a video of their latest studio session which was 8 days ago and he said he was in disbelief that 7 days later he would be writing Rest In Peace to his long time collaborator.
"Exactly 7 days ago, AKA and myself were in the studio recording a precursor single to our long overdue collaborative tape. 7 days later I can’t believe I’m even here making this post. Rest in heaven dear friend, king, legend, icon, GOAT. Love you for life," he said paying homage to his friend and industry mate.
K.O also took the opportunity to address the ongoing speculations that his brother Siya had something to do with the murder of AKA. Siya is said to be AKA's road manager and friend, so they always travel together hence his presence in Durban the night of the fatal shooting. He is also K.O's brother.
He told the people who had accused Scorpio Siya as well as Don Design to watch what they say as they are playing with innocent people's lives. K.O said his lawyers are already on the case as they summoned one of the people who publicly accused Siya of foul play.
"PS: Stop playing with innocent people’s names and lives for clout unless you have proven facts and motive! My lawyers rightfully summoned one of you already. We’re all hurting and mourning, but don’t spice up your ‘grief’ and public spats with my name for the sake of trending!"
Although he did not mention any names of the people he addressed or the person he sent his lawyers to, but the one person we can think of who repeatedly publicly accused Siya, Don Design and everyone AKA was with that night, is Nota Baloyi.
“They (T Effect) took him to Durban to go die. They isolated him from us. There was nobody left to protect him when it mattered the most. They made him post his location so that they could have him killed. I believe everyone involved in taking Kiernan to Durban was in on killing him. The CCTV footage says it all. We can see who was there for the rehearsals. If the cops bungle this we’ll make sure Tony Forbes gets the answers he deserves," said Nota.
“Durban, we don’t want you fucking AKA tributes, we want answers. Who ordered this hit, and who are the shooters? Everyone but Tibz and the driver, was part of their set-up so Kiernan’s crew need to each individually prove themselves innocent beyond a reasonable doubt. Until we have confessions, my suspects ate Saso, DJ Feel, Don Design, and Scorpio Siya,” he added.
Defending Don Design and Siya were a few celebrities who know them personally like Da Les and Yanga Chief. Zandie Khumalo who does not know him said she feels for him as she knows what he might be going through.
Not only did they publicly condemn the mean comments, The Forbes family also told people to refrain from pointing fingers. Their lawyer,Rudolph Baloyi was first to speak on the matter saying they are not entertaining the claims.
"At the end of the day everybody is looking for answers, we would all like to know what actually lead to this. We would also like to know who are the people behind this. It makes it difficult but also at the end of the day everybody is looking for answers. Some of Kiernan's close friends have now received a lot of blame, there are many people that are analysing the videos. I have seen a lot of comments about Don Design who is Kiernan's DJ who he travelled with almost everywhere," said The Forbes lawyer Rudolph Baloyi.
"I spoke to him last night and also yesterday as he was also at the house, you know people are blaming him for this thing but then we all know that Don Design is not that type of a person. He is almost like a child to the Forbes' that's why he is also welcomed at the house. Nobody is pointing any fingers at him apart from the people on social media," added their lawyer.
