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“ My backside is hotter than my boobs, even though I have both in good measure. Guys find them hard to resist. A guy once tapped my ass and when I turned, he just ran away. My backside has such effects on men”.
“On the kidnapping or abduction, the President did not believe that those girls were abducted for almost 18 days. If the President got the information within 12 hours of the act and he reacted immediately, I believe those girls would have been rescued within 24 hours, maximum, 48 hours.Don’t forget, they are almost 300 girls. The logistics of moving them is something (delay the sect would have encountered). Unfortunately, the President had doubts; ‘Is this true? Is this a ploy by some people who don’t want me to be President again, who is doing this?’I think that was unfortunate aspect of the whole exercise or situation.”On his alleged recent meeting with Boko Haram,he said.,..
People have forgotten that three years ago, I went to Maiduguri. That was when Boko Haram attacked the United Nations building in Abuja and they accepted responsibility.Then, I went to Abuja to meet security leaders, the Inspector-General of Police and the National Security Adviser to know what is their (Boko Haram’s) objectives. Do they have grievances? Can we reach out to them? The feeling I got was that ‘they are a bunch of riff-raff; just forget about them.I then went to the President and asked if I could take it upon myself for a fact-finding visit. I want to find out things. The President was gracious and said ‘I trust your judgment. You can do thatI could not do that without people leading me. There was a lawyer who knew most of them (insurgents) and their leaders. He acted as proxy to talk to them and talk to me. He communicated my arguments, my ideas and my questions to them.I reported to the two most important principals – the state governor and President at that time. I believe that if action had been taken at that time, as recommended, maybe we would have gotten to this stage.”
The latter best describes proponents of the video who have been screaming to high heavens that there is nothing wrong with the video. Indeed, there is nothing wrong go them. How can anything be wrong to those set of people? Those kind of people who dress up and go to Church on Sundays and come out all holier-than-thou but have selective obedience to the teachings of their faith? Those kind of people, a new and lost generation mostly, who were born into a world of seamless and acceptable sexual laxities and swallow anything the mainstream American pop media spit out at them without even thinking for themselves?
Truth be told, as we all know, Nigeria is now very sick. It is not only the politicians and the militicians who are sick. The whole bloody citizenry is sick. I am in my early forties. I come from a generation grappling with the last vestiges of a sane and moral coda in a world fast disintegrating into factions of lewdness and psychophancy. My generation seems to be overawed by what is happening in today’s cultural dysfunctionality. Everyone just seem to look away. Hell no! Those of us who can speak out must speak out. I chose to. Not because I am holier than the other person but because there are STILL real and EXTANT moral rules in the world we live in today which must be left to stay for the world those I call the opposites try to rebuild.If my voice will be the loudest and the last from that generation, then it will be. And I won’t back down in the face of impunity. What I say and will continue to say is a legacy of logic and thought I leave for the sane few and a pricking of dead conscience for the insane many.
And so, I must talk. I must ventilate. I must critique. Because someone has to do it. I do it not for pecuniary gains or for fame; I don’t need those. I have built a brand and body of work over the years which vindicates me. I critique because you don’t say it enough, so I have to say it more.What cultural values are we building? Nay, what moral values? Yes, some may argue that some ignominy abound in Nollywood as well. It does. And my voice is at the lowest decibel there when it does.
The Nigeria you dream about, that utopian Nigeria cannot come to pass if you trample all you hold sacred. Morality is an appendage of culture in progressive societies. Once that moral fibre is cut off, then your society goes to the dogs. A new society cannot be built without a cultural revolution. A change of the mindset. A mental re-orientation. Please someone should go and study China and how their cultural revolution has made them the world’s largest economy and the biggest world power presently or in a couple of years. Countries like China eschewed Western cultural imperialism and built their country on values peculiar and modelled to shape their future.
Artistes in Nigeria are the last bastion of hope in the skewed society. The power of our art in music and movies makes them the first line of believable role models in Nigeria. With music and movies which stir hearts and moves souls to action, the artiste is the person whom the common man and the starry-eyed kids are likely to believe in. Not the politicians. That is the power of tart.When you misuse those powers for immoral proclivities, then you have killed the moral future of millions of kids and conscionable people who look up to you. You have created a dysfunctional moral society in one fell swoop through your visual adventurism.But alas! In Nigeria, most artistes do not care about that. It’s all lip service.
A woman marries and the next thing she is pushing a new visual sexual agenda for the kids and her supporters are egging her on by saying it’s her body or using a silly mantra that her husband likes it like that. The one which makes me chuckle is when some say she is an entertainer and her short-of-strip-dancing antics in the new video is all about entertaining you.Tufiakwa!
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