Rotimi Akinola: Every Big Brother Naija contestant is a Nigerian disgrace

“How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war destroyed!”

We’re talking about THE country that rescued South Africa from the deadly jaws of racial segregation; THE country with the first TV station on an entire continent.

We are talking about the giant of Africa.

Is it because there’s no light? Because there are no good roads? Because NTA under Lai Mohammed lies in shambles? Is that why Miyonse Oluwaseyi Amosu teamed up with 11 other traitors and alien conspirators to shoot Big Brother Naija not just away from home but in a country that seeks to relegate, if it hadn’t 16 years ago, Nigeria to Africa’s humble brother?

Miyonse, this is not personal. You know I love you. Last time you came around I went out of my comfort zone to buy you jollof rice from Shop 10 in UNILAG. I hope you trust me on this. I speak as a man who loves his country. This is an emotional topic for me. I love my country but I cannot, at this moment, say the same about you.

Is it because of ordinary N25 million? Because of a brand-new Kia Sorento? Because it’s in a foreign country and you can now claim to have travelled abroad? Are you okay?

Wait a minute. Do you think you’re making Nigeria proud? Haven’t you read (alternative fact alert!) how the Philistines made powerful Samson a sport transmitting episodes live on Jerusalem TV so the entire nation of Israel could watch in humiliation? Do you think about this at all?

It’s not the Olympics we’re talking about here. You’re not Mikel Obi rescuing the useless NFF from international embarrassment. You’re not Papilo basking in the glory of our first global soccer glory.

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Miyon, you are part of a Nigerian disgrace. A disgrace our dear president who has spent billions on a local clinic currently wallows in. Ask London Met Police.

Don’t you get it? I could be watching you on NTA right now, on UNILAG TV even. But why? Heck! You’re having public showers in Jo’burg and displaying culinary skills with nothing but a towel around the lower part of your delicious frame hoping to get laid while your kinsmen, including my enemy-of-progress self, are made to watch. Total disgrace.

Gosh! I’m so pissed right now!

Rotimi Akinola’s column features on NewsroomNG every Thursday.