I would not be saying anything new about the show of shame aired by Big Brother Africa a few nights ago where the South African representative was washing his fingers in the honeypot of the Nigerian representative, Bevely Osu.
Not being a fan of the show from its inception, I have only relied on the several narratives red from many online posts about the sordid episode. The hullabaloo across the various social media platforms I took time to review were all unanimous in their denouncement of the pornographic clip. But sadly for most of my compatriots, this is where the story will end. Not so?
We Nigerians pride ourselves as custodians of morality and quickly frown at any show of indecency or lasciviousness when we confront it. Or so it seems until you take a critical look look at our collective value system.
I recall that when last year's representative, the silicon breasted Karen returned from 'doing the nation proud', she was hosted by one of our country's minister and pounded accolades for representing us well.
I believe that with Beverly raising the bar in the department of obscenity and debauchery, her return will be heralded with an OFR award from the presidency, a tour of duty with the presidential campaign team throughout 2014 in order to rally the youth, and ultimately a juicy post as the minister of education, because she has so much to teach us about self reliance and maximisation of the use of scarce resources or minister of tourism, because she knows how to attract foreign direct investment(FDI).
I am willing to bet my next month's pay that this is the career path that awaits Beverly on her return because I know my countrymen and women....when it comes to crying 'wolf', their bark is bigger than their bite and as such Beverly's disgraceful act will only get the hypocritical snigger for a night before she is crowned a 'good ambassador' of our great country, Nigeria.
So, let me start by giving it up to our dear 'honorable' Beverly Osu.....
Not being a fan of the show from its inception, I have only relied on the several narratives red from many online posts about the sordid episode. The hullabaloo across the various social media platforms I took time to review were all unanimous in their denouncement of the pornographic clip. But sadly for most of my compatriots, this is where the story will end. Not so?
We Nigerians pride ourselves as custodians of morality and quickly frown at any show of indecency or lasciviousness when we confront it. Or so it seems until you take a critical look look at our collective value system.
I recall that when last year's representative, the silicon breasted Karen returned from 'doing the nation proud', she was hosted by one of our country's minister and pounded accolades for representing us well.
I believe that with Beverly raising the bar in the department of obscenity and debauchery, her return will be heralded with an OFR award from the presidency, a tour of duty with the presidential campaign team throughout 2014 in order to rally the youth, and ultimately a juicy post as the minister of education, because she has so much to teach us about self reliance and maximisation of the use of scarce resources or minister of tourism, because she knows how to attract foreign direct investment(FDI).
I am willing to bet my next month's pay that this is the career path that awaits Beverly on her return because I know my countrymen and women....when it comes to crying 'wolf', their bark is bigger than their bite and as such Beverly's disgraceful act will only get the hypocritical snigger for a night before she is crowned a 'good ambassador' of our great country, Nigeria.
So, let me start by giving it up to our dear 'honorable' Beverly Osu.....
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