US based
Nigerian performer, Adeniji Jemiriye blasts Falz over “This Is Nigeria” video
Nigeria🇳🇬, West Africa
Former
Nigerian Idol contestant and US based Nigerian performer, Adeniji Jemiriye has
faulted “THIS IS NIGERIA”, the currently trending new video by Nigerian rapper
Falz.
Jemiriye
believes that the continue chanting of “THIS IS NIGERIA, EVERYBODY IS A
CRIMINAL” is an insult on the hardworking innocent Nigerians out there.
According
to the songstress, if Falz believes that every Nigerian is a criminal, then so
is his father, Femi Falana; he’s simply saying his own father who has worked so
hard as a lawyer is a criminal.
Below
is how Jemiriye shared it on her Facebook page…
“This
Is Nigeria, Everybody Is Not a Criminal
This
is certainly not the truth that Nigerian youths want to hear now, but the
trending song “This Is Nigeria”, by Nigerian rapper, FalzThaBahdGuy, which is a
cover of the song “This Is America” by US rapper, Childish Gambino, is a
colossal disservice to the millions of innocent Nigerians home and abroad
working hard everyday and making this country proud.
Interestingly
Falz has always attacked “Yahooboys” for bringing Nigeria’s name to disrepute,
but what is the difference between “Yahoo boys” and Falz who just released a
song chanting “Every Nigerian Is A Criminal” which is now being reposted on
different social media by popular celebrities with millions of followers
including American music mogul, Diddy who has more than 10million active
followers on instagram?
Is
this song not a weapon of mass destruction to our collective image laundry
efforts on this country? As at the time of writing this, “This Is
Nigeria…Everybody Is A Criminal” has been viewed by over a million people
globally on Falz’s YouTube page alone just 5 days after its release; not to
talk of the different instagram pages and YouTube pages it has been shared on.
Granted, Nigeria, just like every other countries in the world has a prevalence
of crimes of all manners, and we all know that the international media has not
even helped the Nigerian and African situation, with their focus on the
negative aspects, but doing such a song is a massive dent on the already
tainted image of this country.
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We
are in an era when innocent Nigerians are being denied Visas because of the
sins of the many others, Nigerians in the diaspora not finding it easy to
transact businesses with their foreign counterparts and so many other
challenges attached to being called a Nigerian, but rather than play his part
in changing the conversation, Falz decided to rubbish all of us just because he
wants to make a new hit song; and that is extremely disappointing coming from a
supposedly learned person. It’s worse than Idris Abdul Kareem’s “Jaga Jaga”
which never even insulted hardworking Nigerians anyway, yet intelligently
highlights the challenges in the country. Now, i dont know about the millions
of youths currently hailing the rapper for “a job well done”, however, i abeg
to excuse myself that i am not a criminal. “I deserve some accolades, because i
have paid my dues” in the words of actor Charles Okocha.
We’re
here day in day out trying to make the world see Africa in a better light. Look
at the incident in Paris on Saturday, the guy from Mali. That’s an African! Look
at Nigerians doing us proud both home and abroad. All over the US, Nigerians
dominate the universities as lecturers, same as in the health sectors. With my
music, i have personally promoted Nigeria’s image widely in the US selling
Nigeria and Africa to them, which earned me the spot of the first African
artiste to perform the baseball anthem to a stadium full of spectators, proudly
rocking my Gele. I have been able to meet many world dignitaries and speak to
them more about the beauty of Nigeria and the people and they always show so
much interest in learning about this great country. I, including many other
Nigerians in the diaspora continually make sacrifices to change negative
opinions of foreigners about this country, even as some people change their
names, skin color or even jostle to have mixed baby. We have stayed true to
this country…And someone is somewhere saying we are all criminals?
However,
what i know for sure is that this table that Falz is shaking has his highly
revered dad, Femi Falana on it. And I wonder how he feels about his son saying
he is a criminal after all his years of hardwork in the legal profession?
The
rest of the world may continue to inflict injuries on us, but it will be a
great injustice if we continue rub salt on the injuries ourselves.
Even
Childish Gambino who owns the original song remixed by Falz never called
Americans such derogatory name, while campaigning against the system.
As
a popular Yoruba adage says, only a bastard points to his father’s house with a
left hand.
I
repeat, this is Nigeria everybody is not a criminal.
My name is Jemiriye.
Reference: informationng.com
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