It’s another Saturday, and singer cum columnist with Punch
Newspapers, Etcetera is out with yet another article and this time he comes
hard on Nigerian showbiz stars for living fake lives. With specific details,
Etcetera goes hard on D’banj, Iyanya, Wizkid and others in this new article
which he titles ‘More Celebrity Lies‘. Recall that Etcetera recently had a fall
out with Chocolate City rapper M.I Abaga over his article two weeks back where
he called entertainers ‘Political Prostitutes‘. Read his new article below.
‘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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