Etcetera Says Nigerian Celebrities are Liars, Calls Out Wizkid, Dbanj, Iyanya
Controversial artiste and writer, Etcetera is back with another epic post. Read his thought on Nigerian celebrities.
And all liars shall go to hell – Rev 21:8.
Again,
I’m going to go out on a limb here to talk on a subject that may not be
very popular or nice to Nigerian celebs, especially the guilty ones. I
have said it severally that just because someone is a celebrity doesn’t
mean they are smart. They may have a talent or skill but many of them
are not smart especially when it involves their finances. The old
saying, “your lies will come back to haunt you” has never been more true
than the recent cases of D’banj, Iyanya and Wizkid who are being kicked
out of their homes after lying they owned the properties.
The
residents of blogosphere boulevard were stunned when the news broke
that D’banj got an eviction notice from his landlord and was also said
to be highly indebted. Yes, it is hard to believe that someone of
D’banj’s status could actually be thrown out of his house. But for those
who know that the Nigerian entertainment industry is built on lies and
more lies, it didn’t come as a surprise or a case of a cranky landlord.
Entertainers are well rehearsed liars. They are not what they make you
believe they are. Even the upcoming artist with just one song on radio
issues a press release that they’ve bought a mansion in Lekki Phase One
and a Range Sport SUV?
There
was a time when it was strongly whispered that Don Jazzy and his crew
owned Club Jonzing until the truth came out. You must have also heard
that D’banj owns Koko Lounge. My brothers and sisters in habit of
believing everything you hear, I wish you all knew how your favourite
celebs laugh in their closet seeing you swallow the lies like fufu and
draw soup. Let me give an example of how some artistes can be terrible
liars, we were on a tour of five Nigerian cities with Basketmouth and
his then Humour Unlimited monthly show sponsored by BAT.
When
we got to Enugu, a certain artiste was snoring like a broken trailer
exhaust pipe in the bus on our way from the event centre to the hotel. I
tapped him hoping to stir him up to reduce his noise but I was shocked
when he woke up immediately swearing that he wasn’t snoring, that he was
only trying to get our reaction. Our reaction? After snoring for about
20 minutes with a trail of saliva from one corner of his mouth to his
shirt collar! O’boy some people can lie in Africa.
Did
you hear it on breaking news when Iyanya bought a house in his dreams?
His management must have thought it was a fantastic promo strategy then.
If only they knew that not far into the future, Iyanya would be dragged
by his balls across the floor of the internet, and that his aggrieved
brother would take to twitter to inform everyone that Iyanya had been
evicted (not from Project shame) from his dream mansion. Yes, it is
double wahala for deadi-bodi and the owner of deadi-bodi but won’t it be
tripple wahala for Oritsefemi and his management when fans eventually
discovered that the N200m mansion he purportedly bought some months back
was actually bought in his dreams and not in the real world?
How
much does he charge per gig and how long has he been playing these gigs
to be able to afford a mansion of that amount? Isn’t it wonderful how
naija entertainers think their fans and everyone else is shallow and
gullible? Common sense should tell every artiste that these lies won’t
achieve anything but hurt their careers in the long run when the truth
is eventually revealed. Like it was revealed this week that Wizkid’s car
hasn’t been paid for.
True,
some naija musicians make a lot of money, but not the kind of money
they want you to believe. Does Oritsefemi look the part of a N200m house
owner even with all his body cream? The telco brand ambassadors who are
being coerced into lying about their endorsement fees can’t make such a
preposterous claim not to talk of someone with no endorsement deal. I
shivered when I saw in some blogs over the week that Genevieve just
bought a house in Ghana for a whopping $4m.
This
will go down as the grandmother of all lies told so far. Genny baybay,
you should have asked yourself if there’s any house worth $4m in the
whole of Ghana, except you bought the Ghana National Theatre which by
the way may not be worth $4m. These lies are getting dumber by the day.
The worst thing that can happen to any man is believing his own lies. If
we had a system where entertainers are taxed for their acquisitions,
the ridiculous and unnecessary lies will stop. They will speak the truth
and nothing but the truth or so help them God.
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