Singer Etcetera thinks Nigerian entertainers are partly
to be blamed for what happened at Nyanya Motor Park yesterday Monday. Read
his opinion piece which he posted on his facebook page after the cut.
For God’s sake, can Somebody
please call Dbanj, Don Jazzy, Onyeka Onwenu, Duncan Mighty, Stephanie Okereke,
Genevieve Nnaji, Funke Akindele, Omotola, Rita Dominic, Aki and Pawpaw, Sammy
Okposo, Sunny Neji, Maleke, Okey Bakassi, Jay Jay Okocha, Kanu Nwankwo, Daddy
Showkey, Richard Mofe Damijo, Kwam 1 and other entertainers that have at one
time or the other been seen dining with politicians? Can you please tell them
that there has been a bomb blast in Nyanya?
Can you include pictures of the
mutilated bodies? Please don’t forget to tell them that most of the dead might
have been lovers of their music and movies and cheered them in every concert
and football matches they played both at club level and the national team. Tell
them that their CDs and Movies were bought by those dead fans for inspiration
and because they wanted to feel alive and ease off the daily tensions faced
everyday in this country.
That the Jingles done by
Dbanj, Don Jazzy, Sammy Okposo, Onyeka Onwenu and other entertainers might have
convinced some of those who have died in different Boko Haram raids or bad
roads or lack of proper healthcare facilities to vote for politicians who have
failed them in all ramifications? The same politicians that failed to protect
the lives of those shredded bodies in Nyanya? That some of the dead fans in
Nyanya might have even spent their little earnings to attend their concerts in
Abuja and environs? Have you as an entertainer ever sat down to reflect on the
fact that each time we give our voices to enhance the career of these
politicians knowing they mean no good for this country that we are bringing
more hardship and even death to our fans?
Why devote precious hours in
the studio composing songs asking your fans to vote for politicians whose past
stinks more than the dustbin at Ojota?
How do you feel listening to
those songs today knowing that Mr Politician failed you and your die-hard fans?
Can you give back those millions to bring back the lives of those dead fans in
Nyanya, Jos, Maiduguri, Agatu in Benue? I guess not, because frolicking with
the devil makes u perpetually his.
2015 is around the corner.
Many of us entertainers will be called upon to do jingles, attend rallies
wearing branded T-shirts in support of these same politicians. Millions of
naira will be paid to your bank accounts.
Thousands of bottles of MOET will be popped for you to
feel good at different rally points while you convince your fans to join the
bandwagon as part of the special few who voted for change.
Right now, some of us
entertainers must be licking our lips in anticipation of the naira windfall
come 2015. Let your conscience be your pilot. That is if you have one. May the
souls of those fans who have died because of insecurity and corruption haunt
every entertainer who refuses to repent from selling his or her talent for
money at the expense of a better Nigeria.
And may the souls of all our
faithfully departed fans REST IN PEACE. Amen!
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