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He’s positioned as the Director-General for Arts and Culture. Anytime he wants to justify his post and pay, he must go deep in arrant nonsense.
He was reported to have dwelt on the Nigerian crossdresser, Bob Risky in a recent interview. As we used to say in those, not too far days, of my youth, he used Bob Risky, ‘to gain stars’.
I understand he even said he was going to get him arrested. Of course, since Nigeria is a country where anything goes, don’t joke with his words, he can become the police and the judge and get the poor guy arrested.
Runsewe’s main issue with the crossdresser is that he’s fearful that, against our ‘culture’, he’s getting more fans some of whom are dressing like him.
Hmmm…’culture’?
Whose culture?
Has the Otunba ever heard of Dan Daudu as practiced in Northern Nigeria?
Maybe his own culture excludes the culture of northerners!
Yorubas used to boast that they would neither steal nor beg?
Go to most eateries in Western Nigeria now, you’ll see women waiting in the wings to accost patrons of the eateries. Once those ones come out, they lay a siege on them to part with some change.
Some may even get abusive if the patrons refuse to, ‘shake body’.
I don’t believe I need to bore people with the activities of robbers. They’ve even graduated to become kidnappers.
Oh gosh! What am I saying? Since they grab adults now, I guess, ‘Adultnappers’, would be a better description.
The people in government are definitely not getting it right. But then, I guess these are all part of our culture.
I’m not a fan of Bob Risky, but I want to believe he has his personal rights which I’ll insist, even if for the umpteenth time, is God-given. Moreover, our world has become a global village.
The major thing is for parents to take the job of parenting responsibly. We are reaching the stage of not having children because the society expects us so to do but because we can take care of and train them.
As for the Otunba, I do like his table manners!
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