By Mohammed Ibrahim
Hush this Hush that; fraud star, scammer, schemer and what not; Nigerians never cease to amaze and entertain in equal measures.
If Dauda Kahutu (Rarara) is seen as one, then we are all same at different stunts we undertake on a daily bases. Some of us are chain smokers, drunkards, gamblers, and we sometimes spend our hard earn currency on seemingly reckless and foolish adventures.
Yet, no one questions our moral and intellectual rationale behind such incorrigible misdemeanor and inequities, for the reason that it’s our choice.
How often do Nigerians borrow and throw their money to the winds, in a fruitless adventures.
Who cares to free the so called poor Nigerians from the shackles of many gambling and betting industries, with their usual tricks and devilish hoodwinks.
What about similar promos and blind alley adventures undertaking by average Nigerians on daily bases; online scam and fraud being our staple diets.
Who would rescue the poor Nigerians from the infamous Bet9ja.com?
As of April 2020, according to a recent listing by IABC Africa, Bet9ja.com is the third most-visited website in Nigeria after Google.com and Youtube.com.
According to Alexa – a global internet traffic ranking firm, It is also the first most-visited local site in Nigeria and the only Nigerian website in the top 500 most-visited websites globally. This is the fate of the vulture as it wait patiently.
Unlike Hushpopi, Evans and their cronies; the yahoo boys, Rara’s request violates non of the law of demand and Supply, neither has he violated any of our constitutional rights.
After all, if A GoFundMe campaign launched for disqualified BBNaija Season 5 Housemate, Erica Nlewedim, has generated $15,863 (about N6.1million) in 22 hours, a program mostly patronized by middle class Nigerians (intellectuals), what moral and intellectual right can question the sense and sensibilities of those poor Nigerians’ resolve to pay for a product of their choice, too?
As Mohammed Adamu observed;
In all honesty, I do not see anything wrong with what Rarara is doing. It is neither immoral nor illegal. If anything, the message he is sending to Nigerians is this: that if ever thought that he was singing charitably for a political ’cause’, he was not! And that he will not.
Or that: if he had done it charitably for a political cause before, well then now he won’t. I see nothing wrong in that. He is putting a price to his intellectual property.
Rarara is hawking his intellectual wares on the market stall of a capitalist, free market democratic economy. He is not forcing anyone to buy.
If it is worth the fancy of anyone or any lover of Buhari to have a new panegyric for the APC President, by God, let that be a choice they’ll have to freely and willfully make all by themselves.
And why should it matter to Rarara if any poor Nigerian has to even borrow money to buy his offer? An artist is asking those who CARE to pay so that he will exert his intellectual prodigy to write a song worthy of their appreciation and suddenly we have a problem with that; He is an extortionist, he is a fraud, he is hush this and hush that! I don’t get it!
Those defrauded through such schemes pay money in anticipation of a profit; and in the end, they neither get the profit nor even their capital.
Rarara is asking those who MAY, to pay sum ‘A’ for product ‘B’. You can only take him to task if he takes money and does not deliver.
Mohammed Ibrahim writes from Kaduna
God will see us through,, we prayed for a better society and a peaceful state