Etcetera Exposes Wizkid, Dbanj, Iyanya,Oritsefemi in Write Up || @wizkidayo @iamdbanj @OritseFemi @Iyanya
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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