Davido vs Dele Momodu Round Two.
Like a Rumble in the Jungle ...
Since posting a message, trying to alert our nation to the dangers of losing our teenage girls, like birds of prey to rampaging artistes, opinions have been divided here on Facebook.
Many jumped to defending Davido the Celebrity, incensed on seeing their artiste getting pulled in for a minor offence of bedding a vulnerable woman fighting substance misuse, ending up with having a baby with traces of cannabis in her blood stream!
A few, risking name callings or outright attacks, sought to pitch their camps in Sophia's embattled terrain!
Since killing the insurgence of Democratic Decree 4 by our legislators, occasioned by the irrepressible social media, both sides have demonstrated their inallienable rights.
But facts must remain facts, or they become fallacies.
I still have an issue with the idea of many turning SANs for Davido, when a careful digest of his statements confirmed, like every human, he has his shortcomings. He is not owning up to a saintly outlook, nor looking to curry the kind of favours done him to date on this saga.
The objective of my post was not to villify these characters, through personalizing the incident, but to alert us to the ever-present dangers of allowing compromises, just for the sake of monetary success or fame undeservingly heaped on our so-called celebrities in the showbiz world.
From PortHarcourt to Holywood of America, obscenities trail these so-called celebrities, liiving a lie, indulging in illicit drugs, prodtitution and gambling. Only those admiring them from a distance, having little or no clues about their private lives, are the ones forcing a positive status on them, they know themselves, they lacked a life worth emulating!
Since posting this message, I have read misconceptions, faced a level of undeserving banters, but I was not really moved, because people either did not get my drift, or deliberately chose not to.
A lady even justified dancing nude, claiming it was worth doing for a living!
That is my concern. If the nude dancing was done in their private homes, their rights cover that.
But where an artiste lured teenage girls to assemble and dance nude to sell his videos to a targeted market, most of them perverts, and leaving our youths and our tomorrow vulnerable, it becomes a societal problem that calls for concern.
I am not a moralist, noram I playing holier than thou. My position is of feeling concerned seeing our society gradually grinding and sliding towards moral bankruptcy and debase. We owe it a duty to arrest such slide, hence we risk paying dearly.
The concern for the health of the tooddler was well placed, knowing nothing and having no part on this mess.
So also is the health of the baby mother a priority, considering the fact that the wider society risks suffering a backlash if she should be ignored and become a societal threat and nuisance.
I can remember a time in my home town of Ilesa, specifically,Oke-Esho, when someone ran berserk, decapitating innocent people going about their legitimate businesses.
The mad person was not accountable for his actions on grounds of diminishing responsibility.
Davido the Celebrity exercised indiscretion, sleeping with a woman suffering drug addiction.
That is a clear case of taking advantage of a vulnerable person, that can earn him a jail term in responsible societies.
The manner of his getting in contact with this woman, in spite of his claim to solid moral grooming was deliberately ignored here, and that cheapen our outing here on this matter.
I have always been of the opinion that it takes complicity to hang about a person fighting substance misuse, if you are not taking the substance yourself!
The revellations by Gbenga Dan Asabe here should not earn him a slam, as he dares whoever cares to Google.
He has not recommended Wikkipedia, and we are not doubting the honesty and integrity of Google.
There is a limit to which we can vouch for our own children, talk less of the child of another person that we have no close relationship.
We all know how financially vulnerable our media practitioners have become, in image laundering of villains in exchange for rewards.
What we read in newspapers, listened to on radio or watched on televisions are rehearsals, with cracks papered over. Not all that glitters is gold!
My reference to Dele Momodu is now becoming a regret, as it tends to take a shine off the issue proper, of seeing a society suffering loss of values.
If anything, my grouse about his involvement is of not doing enough to protect all the youngsters involved, especially the identity of the toddler, allowing it to be subject of public media consumption.
I was not insinuating he allowed that to happen to gain material rewards, or use the occasion to prop up the image of his magazine suffering loss of patronage.
My seemingly protection of Sophia was deliberate, in line with professionalism and a duty of care.
You don't beat a woman that is down! Sophia has lost a big chunk of her personality, that berating her again will amount to injustice. She needs help, not condemnation.
If Davido was mot a celebrity, putting a woman this vulnerable in the family way, we would have recommended an arrest.
But Davido is a mega star, heavily loaded. Does that exonerates him from all blames and investigation, including testing him for cannabis consumption, and contributing to making a misery of the life of a little baby?
Let us opt for objectivity.
I will still recommend we take the challenge from Gbenga Dan Asanbe seriously asking Google for facts about Davido's past we are ignoring.
It will help objectivity.
Looking after all the three - the baby, Sophia and Davido in that order should remain our priority.
Uncle Momodu's case is very simple. He is available for our vultures to peck his eyes. We can express our displeasure by shunning buying Ovation magazine.
That is ethical consumerism demonstrated.
He will listen to us that way!