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. - Punch
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