Saw this post on Saharareporters, it challenged. So I am sharing it with fellow believers, as we may be lulled into these false adulations. As our Lord said we need to watch and pray

Lest We Immortalize Nuisance…The “Goldie” Situation By Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri
Posted: February 18, 2013 - 19:36
By Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri
About ten years ago I lost a friend in an armed robbery incident. Obviously the armed robbers were not satisfied with robbing they needed to make a point by harming someone in the house and my friend’s mother was their target. As they swung the axe my friend who was the scholar of our class in secondary school protected his mother with his head….he died; no national award, no postmortem speech from the Governor and of course no celebrity burial; he was just another guy, the fact that he took a battle axe to his head for his mother was irrelevant

This and many more of it happens in a country wherein people get millions both in local and foreign currency for playing football; a country wherein comedians shake hands with the President and women who kiss strange men on camera in the name of acting take home National Award and an immoral youth who made fame singing about his private part is given special opportunity to interview the President in a desperate campaign strategy because the thinking is that the community is populated by zombies and bimbos who will vote in a PHD holder on the “honour” of a nuisance whose only relevance to society, apart from lewd music, is competition in air and space. Thus the question every sane Nigerian should be asking is when will this madness of underserved honour stop?

The death of the musician from Ekiti, Goldie Harvey, and the attempt to make it seem like we lost an icon is another and perhaps the worst of all these madness. I do not believe that death, which we will all face, should make you a hero except you died an honourable death. When people just drop dead we grieve and console the family not tell blatant lies as to who they were. This is why the statement of the Ekiti State Governor is worrisome. Mr. Kayode Fayemi is reported to have described Goldie as a “great daughter of Ekiti State” and one has to wonder upon what was this greatness achieved? Are people now great for singing meaningless songs with promiscuous suggestions or for taking and publishing suggestive photos of themselves?

Since when did we consider it greatness to appeal to the sexual cravings of perverts and run after men on camera in the name of a reality show that is far from reality? Since when did it become great achievement that a lady is even thought of as being a junkie in her life time? How can this be great?

In the past fathers will tell their children “don’t bring shame to this family” but nowadays shame and shamelessness is celebrated with such noise that you think the Devil himself is in charge of people’s life and even he has gone crazy.

Ironically, around the same period this unfortunate death occurred Governor Theodora Orji of Abia State was commending Mrs. Nwanyieze Prosper for winning the Purity Queen title for a lady who kept her virginity until her marriage; surprisingly some Nigerians criticized the Governor and even ‘accused’ him of giving her a car whereas Governor Kayode Fayemi was praised for describing Goldie as a “bright star” among other accolades including that she lived a “fulfilled life”. Indeed the world is upside down.

The problem with giving honour to people who did dishonourable acts is that people will definitely emulate them. The Dolly Parton’s of this world made it a fashion for women to expose their cleavage; years on women have lost their husbands to such exposure and homes have collapsed; the Dr. Dre’s of this world made being “gangster” a fashionable thing and years later the gangsters are increasing and we even have a gangster in the White House killing innocent people with Drones….Martin Luther’s dreams became a Nightmare. And this list goes on and on; for every irresponsible person you honour you make irresponsibility the “swag”, the same way for every man who dies for his mother you honour you make standing up against oppression and protecting the weak the in-thing….make your choice.

Lastly, we must clarify two issues. The first one is with regards to speaking “evil” about the dead while the second one is the “who are you to Judge” comedy.

Firstly, the dead has already met what he or she put forward hence there is no need to speak of its evil. What there is need to do however is to either call the living to an example to live by if the dead is worthy of emulation or to warn the living to stay away from a wasteful lifestyle like that of the dead who lived life as if death was never going to come and this is the real lesson here; life is short, if you live it like Goldie your death may come and meet you in that state; what will you tell your Creator? We cannot pretend this is not the lesson here; it will be one lie too many

Secondly, they ask us not to Judge and we say to them since we are in the spirit of not judging kindly don’t judge the location of your mouth so that you put your food in your nose. We say to them that in this spirit of not judging please cross the road without judging that a vehicle is close enough to knock you down; maybe when you are in the air you will realise your stupidity.

We do not Judge a person who has Faith that he or she will be in the hellfire, we do not Judge that the person’s bad is more than his/her good, we do not Judge if God will forgive a believer…..but we Judge that fornication and the promotion of it is EVIL, and that the one who represented evil dead does not make evil good.

Some others will say an adult can do what he or she likes and you don’t have to force your life on others. The question we have for this set of confused mentally colonized perverts is that this same justification is given to homosexuality and it will soon be given to incest so that if a grown up man and his grown up daughter say they fell in love and want to marry your kind will say well it’s their life, it does not affect me….can you see now that you are sick?

Conclusively, the lessons from this unfortunate incident can be summarized as thus;

1) Death can come at any time; be prepared to meet your Lord.

2) Fame and fortunes are but illusions, what matters is your relationship with your Creator.

3) The enjoyment of this world is fleeting; don’t let it deceive you.

4) Live a good life; one that does not involve promoting lewdness or any type of evil; death and Judgment is real and it is no respecter of status.

5) It was the honour given her musical mentors that led the lady to not just music but a meaningless form upon which her life ended so let’s ensure that we do not turn scum into icons because people will sure emulate them.
May God Almighty give the family fortitude to bear the lost and guide them aright.

Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri
Benin City

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of SaharaReporters

how foolish.


blaming dr dre for gangsters as if gangsters didnt exist before dre. all dre does is rap about what happens


blaming dolly patterson for divorce of other women? did dolly go to their husbands?


yes, there are many unsung heroes but your condemnation of morals based on your excessive religious piety makes you a religious nutjob, eseoghene

i agree wit u

reveal: . I do not believe that death, which we will all face, should make you a hero except you died an honourable death. When people just drop dead we grieve and console the family not tell blatant lies as to who they were.

Full Stop, Final Kpomkwem.
With all due respect for the dead (Goldie et al), but I think we really make a big fuss outta nothing. For fuq sake, when I lost my mum was it all over the media? And hey!, dont you dare ask if my mum was or I am a celebrity, else Amadioha will disfigure ur brain and throat! Besides, I enjoy living a low profile life.
Let us just ask ourselves this question: "When I die, is God going to ask if I was a celebrity or not; or is being a celebrity goin' to give me an edge over my contemporaries in making heaven?". When we've come up with the right answer, then we'd realise that the earth we live in is filled with vanity upon vanity.

This world don rili spoil,celebrating immorality,imagine kim kandesian abi how dem dey spell her name,she is a celebrity for showin d public her private parts,den y is it called private parts wen it now blong to d govt and public?If person save human life,dem no go reward am,if d same person kiss anoda married woman for nollywood,d guy go carry award.SMH for dis country.

The problem with black peeps especialy the species call nigeria is that whenever you try to point them to the right way they will open thier stupid and smelling mouth, comparing nigeria to USA ENGLAND JAPAN telling you thier is nothing wrong in sagging thier trousers, showing thier unclothedness homosexual etc. They will give you stupid reasons why we must copy the negative side of the whitman .

Logicboy03: how foolish.


blaming dr dre for gangsters as if gangsters didnt exist before dre. all dre does is rap about what happens


blaming dolly patterson for divorce of other women? did dolly go to their husbands?


yes, there are many unsung heroes but your condemnation of morals based on your excessive religious piety makes you a religious nutjob, eseoghene

Declaring a great writeup as foolishness is the real foolishness. If you have a beef with God, state it elsewhere. The article is about injustice in society.

Need more popcorn as i await the epic.

Akanniade:

Declaring a great writeup as foolishness is the real foolishness. If you have a beef with God, state it elsewhere. The article is about injustice in society.

You dont solve injustice at invoking your god and tearing down someone's freedom of expression by imposing your religious morality.

The article had a nice point marred by the excessive push of religious morality on others.

Logicboy03:


You dont solve injustice at invoking your god and tearing down someone's freedom of expression by imposing your religious morality.

The article had a nice point marred by the excessive push of religious morality on others.

why are u still clinging to your beef with God?that was a good write-up so abeg go use your blanket.mtchew

Segeggs: why are u still clinging to your beef with God?that was a good write-up so abeg go use your blanket.mtchew

Keep defending a nonsense write up

Logicboy03:




Keep defending a nonsense write up

SHUT UP EMPTY BARREL

alexleo:

SHUT UP EMPTY BARREL