BIG BROTHER NIAJA: A FILTH

A couple brought out their matrimonial bed and attempted to make love to each other in public glare. I am doubly sure that they wouldn't have gone a minute long before people would pitifully come to the rescue of their seemingly irredeemable madness, let alone unmarried man and lady doing same on the screen. The rescue method for those ones would definitely require beating with a very hard cane. This is just a prologue into the piece. Read on.

I had thought that the filthy, trashy, rusty and immoral Big Brother Naija show was not worth my ink until one of the beneficiaries of the rustiness - Soma Anyama - illogically and unintelligently answered to questions on a television programme as regards the moral justification for the show. Soma expressly affirmed what I had initially taken for an exaggeration. He said it was true that participants on the show do illicit acts, the peak of which is sex, under the camera. Sex! As in S.E.X! He added that, that was why it had a dedicated station on satellite TVs and its target audience were restricted to 18-year-olds and above. A-N-Y-A-M-A! Just like his name. Imagine how smelly the defence was. For the first time, I heard someone talk from his anus. A...N...Y...A...M...A!

It's unfortunate that the co-guest on the programme - Kayode Salako (a political and social commentator) - was rather economical with the truth. I was greatly disappointed by his gaffe. I expected him to have tenaciously maintained his ground when he said the programme was wrong and immoral. But he rather dillydallied in the long run - beating about the bush like a stranded hunter with no weapon to battle an oncoming wild animal. He obviously didn't want to "spoil market" for the filthy promoters of the filthy BBN show. So rather than join people call for its immediate, outright proscription, he said Nigerians were at liberty to either watch or not.

Without doing any scriptural quotations, common sense is enough a tool to establish that the show is filthy. It is, no doubt, promotion of moral decadence.

Imagine! People are gathered for a certain period. They will have sex with one another. And at the lapse of the filth, someone will part with a whooping #45m, while others will disperse with some consolation prizes. The sex craze is done under the camera for the world to view the satanic adventure live. Doesn't that defy logic? Do we need any Quranic verse to know that such is senseless?

#45m for being skilled in illicitness. #15m for beauty pageantry. A standing fan for the best teacher. A laptop for a debate winner. #5k for a quiz winner. #50m loan to 100 local farmers. That is #500k per farmer. #20k empowerment fund to 10k market women. #50k loan to small scale entrepreneurs. Why would there be no recession in the land when our priorities are not properly set; when our human capital isn't solidified; when trivialities reign over priorities.

The brainy child who is supposed to pass on his braininess to the next generation as a teacher is itching to end up a celebrity via BBNaija, Mr/Miss Naija etc. He surely knows that a teacher isn't anywhere near the richness of the winner of BBN. He will not yearn to be a farmer because he knows that such a job isn't a shortcut to becoming wealthy. Therefore, those to train upcoming generations aren't available for the teaching job. Those to put food on the table for the nation have run into celebritism. Disaster! Calamity!

BBN is watched by teens and minors. They have been corrupted by the show and its allies. The more reason masturbation and rape are rampant among them. Brother and sister of the same parents sex each other when they get aroused by the satans of the BBN.

Parents should be meticulous about what their kids watch on TV. They shouldn't do full subscription for any of the satellite TVs they use. This will safe their children from seeing what the lucifers do on the luciferous Big Brother Naija.

Author: Kay Yusuf