By Tony Iwuoma
It is with great relief that the television (un)reality show, Big
Brother Naija, #BBN, has come to an end after 70 agonising days. It was
70 days of depravity gone overboard. It was a period the devil was given reins
over our country, Africa, and possibly the
world, when budding youths were quarantined in a house of sin and manipulated
to dance to surreal and macabre music orchestrated by merchants of immorality,
smiling to the banks.
It was a time when Nigeria was
hypnotised to sacrifice decency to the gods of mammon. Even at that, the spell
cast upon the nation was so strong we ended up enriching South Africa
and gaining nothing but the few coins given to the winner of the show, Efe, and
his two compatriots.
How do I mean? I will tell you.
Nigeria surrendered the
hosting of the show to South
Africa despite her citizens, and, in fact,
the nation itself being the focus. They sold Nigeria
the dummy that power challenges would not allow the hosting of the show in Nigeria and,
so, shipped our youth to that South African madhouse. All the technicians were
South Africans and Nigerians lost opportunity to make a few bucks for
themselves from a project they should have been first beneficiaries. It was a
big rip-off! South Africans made heavy financial gains. Over 24 million people
voted on the last day alone and if that is translated to cash, and input all
the votes of the previous days preceding the final, you can see how dumb the
minders of our economy are to have given South Africa that much room to
manipulate them out of much revenue.
It is annoying that South African firms would play big in this country, earn
billions and corrupt our youths, with our leaders moping and yet that country
for which Nigeria sacrificed everything has nothing but disrespect and hatred
for our citizens in their own country that are daily hacked down in hideous
xenophobic circumstances.
