Category: Health

Federal health officials ran into stormy weather before Senators last month when they sought approval for a $200 million loan to import mosquito nets. The request failed more from the incoherent explanations of the presenters than from the reluctance of Senators to yield grounds for yet another foreign loan. The request pigeonholed Nigeria as one of those African countries which, a Jewish leader say, will continue to wallow in poverty because they are consumers, not producers. Nigeria’s backyards, bushes and forests are overpopulated with herbs and plants which cure malaria, but the nation is unwilling to convert them into anti-malarial medicines for domestic consumption and export.

Nigeria’s laziness or deliberate ineptitude promoted by thieving in government circles has paid off again for the United States, where NATURE HERBAL LIFE has made BITTERLEAF and OKRA into capsules which are billed for export to this country as medicinal herbs! It is intriguing, if not correlative, that in the week the Senate rejected the $200million loan request, two Federal civil servants were found to own 301 houses in Abuja. One of them owned 246 of the houses, the other 55. Right inside the Presidential Villa, civil servants wish to build a 14–bed clinic that would cost N21 billion. I have not seen the President’s photograph recently. But MOFE OYATOGUN, presenter of EARLY RUSH HOUR 8am-9am programme on Star Fm radio said he was looking fresh, healthier than ever and rosier in the cheeks. Maybe planners of the 14–bed hospital believe Asorock needed a United Kingdom-standard health-care which has brought the President back to life and may reduce the cost of his health trips aborad. Whatever their reasoning, it is difficult for some people to not believe that something is going on beyond their reasoning that is linkable to the $200 million budget for mosquito nets and the 301 houses found to be owned by only two federal civil servants.

Before I play the Devil’s Advocate in the cases of the $200 million loan and the N21billion 14–bed Asorock clinic, I would quickly like to make brief comments on Nature Herbal Life and the comments by a Jewish leader about African nations.

In its presentation of the Bitterleaf and Okra capsules, Nature Herbal Life backed the findings with scientific studies of some American universities which extol the virtues of BITTERLEAF in the treatment and cure of diabetes, arthritis, high blood cholesterol, obesity and much more. The company says we should also expect nutritional supplements such as Bitterleaf Moringa capsules, Bitterleaf tea, Bitter greens capsules, Maxx Immune Support etc. So, do not be surprised if, despite our huge arable land and a huge army of unemployed young people, these products pour into Nigeria and there is a wild demand for them. The problem is less that of incapacity to develop capacity to till the land and bring these products forth but more of the penchant to patronise foreign market.

In respect of capacity, there are four levels of activity. These herbs must be cultivated at plantation level. There must be processing factories to purchase them from plantation owners. There must be merchandisers who will market them in bulk nationwide and abroad. Finally, there will be dispensers or marketers. What we have today are dispensers who are trying to be everything in the system.

In an interview making the rounds on the internet, a Jewish leader was asked:

“Why are Blacks not wealthy? Why are Blacks so behind economically?

Jewish leader:

The only thing Blacks understand is consumption. Blacks don’t understand the importance of creating and building wealth. The fundamental rule is to keep your money within your racial group. We the Jews build Jewish business, hire Jewish, buy Jewish, and spend Jewish. There is nothing wrong with that but it is a basic rule Blacks cannot comprehend and follow.

“He kills his fellow Blacks daily instead of wanting to see his fellow Blacks succeed”

The story is not different in Africa. Their leaders steal from their people and send the money back to their colonial masters from whom they borrow the same money.

Every successful Black wants to spend his money in the country of his colonial masters. They go on holiday abroad, buy houses abroad, school abroad, go for medical treatment abroad, etc. Instead of spending this money in their own country to benefit their people. Statistics show that the Jew’s money exchanges hands 18 times before leaving his community while for Blacks it is probably a maximum of once or even zero.

Only six per cent of Blacks’ money goes back into their community…. Instead of buying Louis Vuitton, Hermes, expensive cars, shoes, houses, dresses, etc, Blacks could industralise Africa, build banks and get rid of colonial institutions by putting them out of business.

So what can Blacks do to liberate themselves?

Jewish leader:

Blacks must take responsibility. Blacks must unite. And vehemently fight corrupt leaders who run down their country and run to IMF as though IMF is Father Christmas. They need to look inwards otherwise they will continuously remain economically colonised and lose their place in history”.

This is where we are heading. The $200 million loan for mosquito nets will create jobs in foreign lands. Young Nigerians will go to those lands to work as slaves. Back home, loan repayment will substantially eat up the budget offering no room for development. There would be economic stagnation. Our excuse for wanting to take the loan is that Covid-19 depressed our economy. But did Covid-19 not depress the economy of the lenders more than ours? Let me play the Devil’s Advocate and then quickly eat my words. Health officials must be worried that Nigeria carries the biggest malaria burden in Africa with 51 million infections and 207,000 deaths every year. 51million infections in one year alone easily subsumes 212,120 cases of Covid-19 in two years. Also, 207,000 malaria deaths in one year easily subsumes total Covid-19 2,898 deaths in two years. Nigerian health officials have been accused of paying too much attention to Covid-19. So, malaria must now engage their attention. But is a $200 million loan to import mosquito nets the best way to fight malaria, lower infection and death rates and reduce government spendings?

At the conservative rate of N500 to the U.S. Dollar in the Nigeria currency black market, $200 million is equivalent to N100 billion. It boils down to about N450 per person in the 220million population. I find only about four matters about the loan annoying, if not disgusting. For they continue to remind me that today’s Nigerian leaders are still behaving like those monarchs of old who took Whiskey, Schnapps, umbrellas and mirrors from Europeans in exchange for selling their citizens off as slaves.

We are in the season of the fallen or dead elephant when all sorts of knives emerge from their sheaths for homongus cuttings of meat for hungry and insatiable butchers. We are in the season in which almost every public officer is seeing the nation as a Prostate fool and getting the best out of her, rather than serving her. It is the raping of a helpless state. About 400 million has been taken in foreign loans to buy Covid-19 vaccines. President Donald Trump in his hey days suggested Nigerians would “die like flies”, if we didn’t. We had no standard hospitals, our hard-trained doctors were migrating to greener pastures in America. American citizens were hurriedly evacuated to make us believe we were living in one huge graveyard in the making over which the skies would soon fall. Nigerians didn’t “die like flies”. Americans died “like flies”. Did Africans “die like flies” in the BLACK PLAGUE, as Europeans named the BUBONIC PLAGUE which eradicated about a third of the population of Europe between 1346 and 1353, killing 25 million people? No we didn’t. Only a few hundreds in the northern fringes of Africa reportedly died. I believe, like many people that our natural immunity from diet, sunshine, simple lifestyle are what are standing by us.

Today, we are thinking of $200 million loan to import mosquito nets instead of setting up factories to produce Lemongrass tea, capsules, fluid extracts, oil, KARELA, CHANKA PIEDRA, PAPAYA LEAF, AWOPA tree bark etc. To take these anti-malarial remedies from us, there is serious thought of importing anti-malarial vaccines!

Foreign jobs

The second annoying factor of the $200 million loan is that it will create jobs for not Nigerians but foreigners in their own lands which will continue to grow lushfully and to where our impoverished citizens will flee in future as slaves.

Anti-malaria herbs

Nigeria’s backyards, bushes and forests are blessed with anti-malarial herbs and plants. All the government needs to do is encourage plantation cultivation of these herbs, as South Africa has done with Roibos tea to sell it internationally, encourage the setting up of processing plants and embark on massive public campaign to encourage their daily consumption. My family takes these herbs everyday. I cannot recall coming down with malaria fever in the last 30 years. Never mind that my genotype is AS. There are AAs in my family and they, too, are not down. I hope I will be able to discuss about three of these herbs.

Lemongrass

I grew up to know it as an anti-snake remedy around village homes. That perception changed in the 1990s when a Lagos University Teaching Hospital(LUTH) study said hot water extract of Lemongrass killed PLASMODIUM FALCIPARIUM in the test-tubes and in the human body. Plasmodium Falciparium is the parasite from the Anopheline female mosquito which causes malaria fever in humans. It travels from the blood to the liver where it grows before returning to the bloodstream to invade red blood cells, destroy them and cause anaema and all these symptoms of malaria, including death in severe attacks.

Later, LIPTON (NIG) Limited commissioned the Federal Institute for Industrial Research Oshodi(FIIRO) in Lagos, under Prof. Sunday Ayodele Odunfa as director-general (December 1990–October 2000), to study the health benefits of Lemongrass. Both studies merely confirmed what was known for ages by the IYA ELEWE-OMO in the open markets of Southwestern Nigeria. The Iya Elewe-omo is the traditional herb seller who makes herbal medicine prescriptions of all sorts for patrons. In these markets, Lemongrass is a standard prescription for malaria fever. But international business politics killed the dream of a Nigerian Lemongrass tea and imposed on this country a tea brand from the United Kingdom sold worldwide.

In his ETHNOMEDICAL USES OF PLANTS IN NIGERIA, Prof L.S.GILL confirms that Lemongrass is widely used in Nigeria in the prevention and cure of malaria. He mentions other herbs, including tree barks which should have been of interest to those health officials. If, for the sake of argument, they are interested in keeping the mosquito out of our homes, have they not heard that ORANGE-PEEL and PALM-KERNEL OIL can do the job better? When I noticed that there were too many mosquitoes in my flower gardens on account of many food crops grown there, I began to burn orange peel in a small charcoal-fire. They would all disappear for days. Orange peel is everywhere. The orange sellers are beginning to know it is money, not orange waste. For it helps out in cough, asthma, elevated blood sugar and diabetes, inflammatory conditions and digestion, among other state of disease. Abroad, the orange is cultivated in plantations and expressed for juice for the fruit juice market, the pith and the fruit snacks are processed into bioflavonoids for that market and fiber market. The orange peel is then processed into fine grade powder for its own global market.

Back to Lemongrass, some Nigerian herbal medicine practitioners have succeeded in turning the leaves into powder, which may be taken as tea or spread on food. The oil is good for many uses. Rubbed on the body, it has an anti-mosquito effect like palm-kernel oil. Sometimes, I use it as perfume. When I encounter a serious case of malaria, I put about two or these drops of the essential oil in a carrier oil and suspend in a 1.5liters of water in a bottle. Often, the effects are dramatic, especially if the therapy goes with two JOBELYN capsules three times a day for three days, eased down to one capsule daily for the next seven days.

Federal health officials pushing for a $200 million loan to import mosquito nets may not have heard that, last year, researchers at the BENGURION UNIVERSITY of NEGEV discovered that, in test-tubes, the lemon aroma such as that in Lemongrass grass kills cancer cells without harming healthy cells. The researchers were led by Dr. Rivka Ofir and Prof.Yakov Weinstein. An American university and a Japanese university had, before then, discovered that a Lemongrass extract named CITRAL killed cancer cells in test-tubes and restricted their growth and spread in humans. Armed with these ideas and more, a Governor in Nigeria whose state was poor was given the proposal of organising plantation farming of Nigerian medicinal plants and herbs such as Lemongrass, setting up an international company to process and market them, thereby creating use for idle arable land, creating jobs in a huge value health chain for his people and improving Internally Generated Revenue(IGR). Rather, he embarked on the construction of an airport which he could not complete and remains an abandoned project, owed pensioners and workers alike. Such is what we face in an attempt by federal public officers to borrow $200 million to import mosquito nets as a way of fighting malaria fever in Nigeria. If my “O” Level Arithmetic can still reason in high figures, this is a scenario my mind conjures will be the ends of the loan…

• One net will cost about N500
• The selling price will be about N1,500
• Loan repayment will take out N500.
• There would be available to play with a free-falling or free-floating N500 per net per person in the 220 million population or N110 billion.
• I do not know why the words to eloquently present this budget did not easily flow from the mouths of the presenters as they stood before the scrutinising senators. Couldn’t they reason that the floating N110 billion surreptitiously withdrawn from 220 million people could have been put back in Federal Government treasury to reflate the 2022 budget?

If they remembered that and got through with the loan, who among us would remember that surplus money was anywhere? Again, if I may play the Devil’s Advocate, couldn’t this N110 billion not have started the NIGERIAN HERBS project, which federal health officials have kept in the dust for decades? An English man from the United Kingdom read of this advocacy, came to Odogbolu, Ogun State, organised women to grow Lemongrass, brought it to a factory on BILLINGS WAY, Ikeja, Lagos, dried and cut into chips he called DARADARA tea, could not sell it well on his own, and asked the PAX HERBAL CENTRE of Catholic Rev.Father Anslem Adodo to help him. The centre had distribution networks throughout Nigeria, helped for sometime and…the great idea fizzled out. DARADARA tea was marketed as possessing the following abilities…. Dara Dara Herbal Tea Mixture is used for the treatment, control, prevention, and improvement of the following diseases: Bacterial, Amebic, Diarrhea, Filarial, Fungal infections, Larvicidal, Anxiety, Hyperglycemia, Hyperlipidemia, Hypercholesterolemia, etc. Imagine if the government put its weight behind it as other countries, including SouthAfrica and Ghana, have been doing. We would have several Nigerian anti-malarial herbs in capsules, teabags, oil extracts etc. We would take the tea on empty stomach for breakfast and take the capsules over lunch at work. These herbs include, but are not limited to, Lemongrass, Neem (Dongoyaro), Karela (Ejinrin), Chanka piedra (Ehinbisowo or Ehinolube), Awopa bark, Bitterleaf, Pawpaw leaf!

We are a wasteful, thieving people who do not develop the Nigerian economy, as the Jewish leader castigates us, and a consumer, not producer as he and the U.S.-based NATURE HERBAL LIFE are still telling us to our faces. Imagine Nature Herbal Life growing Bitterleaf and Okra in America and coming to sell them in Nigeria! This is one of the disasters those who stopped Moshood Abiola from becoming President did to this Nation. Abiola welcomed many of us modern herbalists in his house for the discussion of ideas in herbal medicines development in Nigeria. He would migrate from some meetings on the ground floor of his house in Ikeja to his bedroom where we could be holding our meetings. His head was “loaded”, his spirit “fired”.  Not only traditional and herbal medicine practitioners lost him, the Nigerian nation, nay, Africa, did…and that is why, today, we can be talking of a $200 million loan to import mosquito nets from abroad, empower the economies of the exporting nations, disempower ours and, on top of it all, leave our people, children, pregnant women, young and old men and women still at the mercy of the female Anopheline mosquito…and malaria fever.

 

I revised this column three times as the storyline was unfolding, to be sure that Tiwa Savage, as her critics allege, has not set us all up in her pursuit of fame and money from the internet-imprisoned Millennium and Genez generations. In the end, I ended up with the following thoughts…

The blackmailer has weak knees and walks on feet of clay, but appears as Damocles before the victim who shivers and caves in. Tiwa Savage dared the shameless fiend and betrayer who wished to blackmail her to surrender her life. All of us who hate evil and say we are for the good should salute her and cast the demon out of our midst.

This fiend met a successful woman who had an emotional gap in her life and pretended to love her. She was careless, as many of us often are, and yielded. As consenting adults, they retired into the privacy of a room, secured the windows and the doors, to shut out the rest of us, to do with each other what none of us can deny he/she had never done in adult life, away from prying eyes and eavesdropping ears, save for those disembodied or astral persons who are earthbound and waste their time sniffing the aroma of sexual vibrations.

As an aside, do not let us deceive ourselves. There are persons around that we do not see or hear when we engage in the procreative act. It may be all that they enjoyed doing when they were on earth. Unable to detach from this activity after they left the flesh, they wander about searching for where they can enjoy the scenery, stocking the fires as they do so. There are also souls of different characters who seek to return to the Earth and are searching for physical bodies they will inhabit to become Earth men or women again. They luck around in the hope that what we are doing will produce a fruit in the womb which may be assigned to them as new bodies they will use in another Earth life. Such souls are invited to us because the procreative act creates a channel of vibrations which ring out into the universe.

In that supposedly hallowed chamber, Tiwa must be one of those persons who believe the legendary William Shakespeare that there is no art for reading the mind’s construction on the face. For this fiend did not love her, his intent was impure. All he wanted was her money, and the cheapest way for him to do that was to thoroughly mess her up by luring her to give herself up to him, strategically, like a professional, capture all her moods and movements of her nerves, make a film of them all and present a copy to her with the question: Your Money or Your life?

If Tiwa fell on her knees, pleading, this blackmailer would come again and again until, emotionally drained, Tiwa would cease to live. But all of us wish to live. And the only way to do that is to continually inwardly and outwardly confront and crush those forces which do not wish us well, feats we can easily accomplish if only we would decide to accomplish them and believe we can. To our surprise, this decision always brings unexpected strength which energises our free will. That, in my view, was what Tiwa did. She told him that rather than give him the millions he was asking for, she would rather spend the money on a designers wrist-watch. She bought a N79 million Diamond wristwatch, to tell him…”go to blazes”. Enraged, he released the video of their time in bed.

Now, we may ask, what has he gained, what has she lost? My answer is that he has gained nothing, except for the cheers of fiends like him who, hilarious, are helping him to circulate his video to put some money in his pocket. Those who circulate the video and those who watch it and cause this woman, her child and family pain do not realise that they are accomplices in the act and, through the Law of Karma, that is the Law of Sowing and Reaping, are linked to this dirty man and his action. Tiwa is someone’s child. These people have children. Would they like their daughters to be so treated? Do their daughters not fool around? How many of them can guarantee no one else touches their wives? Would they like these things announced on mountain tops?

Tiwa’s Mistake

Tiwa made mistakes, no doubt. We all do. The experiences from her first marriage should have taught her to be careful with men. How could she not have known he was into drugs during their courtship? Must a woman be married at any cost? Is marriage the main preoccupation of anyone, man or woman, on Earth? Isn’t marriage only a means to an end…an opportunity to help the other party achieve the purpose of existence on Earth? How many people trouble themselves about why they exist? It is, therefore, not surprising that “professional husbands” target rich women who are desperate for marriage and rip them up. Even women who have no money but are desperate for marriage fall easy preys to dirty men with their bodies and emotions.

William Shakespeare, with due respect, was wrong to assume that there was no art to read the mind’s construction on the face. True, Banquo could not detect Macbeth’s intentions towards him which were veiled behind feigned professional smiles and perfect protocols of State reception. But that was as far as the intellect was concerned. The intellect is the receptive capacity of the brain. It only receives, classifies, stores, retrieves and interprets information. The “art” for reading the mind’s construction on the face is intuitive. Intuition is the receptive capacity of the Spirit. We all are human spirits. We are not our bodies. Our bodies are mere vessels or clothing in which we, the human spirits, exist on earth. The spirit knows everything. It is the spirit which brings warnings in dreams to the physical body. Sometimes, you are somewhere in a dream, fighting, struggling for life, and your body is doing exactly the same in bed. Sometimes, you rise from a dream to ease yourself. As you settle back in bed, the dream continues from where it stopped. Do these not amaze us?

When you stand before a man or a woman, it should take you no more than five minutes to suspect where that person is coming from or heading, if our intuition is keen, is well oiled and not disused. It is because many of us ignored the intuition and over-cultivated the intellect that we lost the “art” of reading the mind’s construction on the face. For the “art” belongs to the intuition. Even in this matter we cannot be a judge over Tiwa’s decision about her lover. We, too, make our mistakes either because our intuition is walled up by the intellect or because we do not respect its advice and rationalise it only to lament afterwards that “something” warned us.

Expenditure

Tiwa’s other mistake is her expenditure of N79 million on a diamond wristwatch in a country reeling in poverty. Is the purchase of this wristwatch the only way by which she could have shamed this blackmailer? No. She made her money from the society which listens to her music and, thereby, put money into her pockets. She could have done better, if she gave something back to that society, especially the young people who are her avid followers. This would be in keeping with the Law of Taking and Giving. We take in air to live and give back air. We take food and water from the soil and give them back. The atmosphere sucks up water from the rivers and oceans and gives it back. Tiwa could have set up a Foundation for the upliftment of young people. She could have built an orphanage. She could have set up a clinic in a mental hospital for the care of mentally ill persons like her betrayer and even named it after him to spite him. She could have gone on to tell the story behind it, and all of us would have been making periodic, perhaps yearly, financial contributions towards the maintenance of this edifice, nay, idea. Rather she gave foreigners our money. What a mistake!

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Irrespective of that, I believe all men and women of good will have the duty to stand up for her at this time of what may be the worst torment in her life. I have never met her, and do not listen to her music. But the story of her torment in the hands of a fiendish blackmailer touches me. I pray always to have the strength to stand up for the Good. In our existence, we cannot afford to be neutral. We evolve from unconsciousness of existence to a state of consciousness of it from where we are meant to evolve into perfection. So, it is a question of either evolving, stagnating or devolving when it comes to choosing between good and evil, light and darkness. Blackmail is evil. Saddism, that is deriving joy from what makes others sad, is evil. Murder, either of character or of the physical body, is evil. In this matter, we must take a stand either for or against blackmail, saddism and murder. I expect Tiwa to get up immediately and speak out. She has done nothing wrong expressing all her feelings to the man she thought was genuinely in love with her. It was her right as a consenting adult. Who among us does not express feelings? I take sides with her simply on the basis of Principles. This fiend has denigrated womanhood, including his own mother, wife and daughter, if he has any. He is polluting our children who are already soaked in sex. Imagine a 15-year-old watching the sex video of a woman old enough to be her aunt or mother. The source of the video should be tracked and this man should be brought to book.

I am proud to belong to the chat group of the 1964-68 set of Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo, Old Boys Association. When one of us dropped this video on us, it was a 20-year-old-girl who works with me who invited my attention to it. I refused to watch it and asked that it be cleared off my phone immediately so that my 14-year-old foster daughter would not see it. Already, I have a tough time regulating the make-up, dressing and exposure to social media. So, I expressed concern on our platform. One after the other, the other members spoke against the post and the Admin, a well-respected gentleman, who had been level headed right from school, suspended the erring member forthwith.

The message was simple: our principal, Rev J.B.P. Lafinhan, taught us that we should not lose our heads while other people were losing theirs. We had a serious Christian upbringing at Olivet. That meant that we subscribed to the Ten Commandments of God, one of which is Thou Shall Not Kill. By this we understand that it is not only when you shoot a man or woman dead that you kill him/her. You kill when you make a promise which you fail to fulfill. You also kill a person when you destroy his name or reputation. For what is the worth of a man or woman without good reputation. This man has tried to destroy Tiwa, to murder her. At Olivet, we couldn’t support him. With this Olivet heritage of which I am proud, I urge us all to lift Tiwa up in her fact, in our actions against the conduct of this man, and in our thoughts and prayers. We should do this by refusing to watch the video and by refusing to transmit it.

Conclusions

Like all of us, Tiwatope has made mistakes in life. Mistakes avenge themselves bitterly. She married a man she didn’t know well enough. But how well did any of us know our spouses? Even now, how much of them do we know? She ran with Wizkid, 10 years younger, like a cheap sex hawker. We do not know how many men came after Wizkid before this horrendous one. But that isn’t a crime if she was still searching for Mr. Right, to which she is entitled. I have heard of a woman who went through four formalised marriages before she met her heart’s throb. Tiwatope may not have hit the end of the road. So what about it, if she hasn’t? Isn’t it her life? This last man messed her up. How many women have not been messed up in other ways by unfeeling, dirty men? Is it wrong to trust a partner who says he is trustworthy? Isn’t it at the close of a cycle we know who is trustworthy and who is a betrayer? Did they not lock doors and windows? We may say Tiwatope trusted her instincts more than her intuition in relying on him to keep their secrets. How many of us don’t do that in all daily activities? Haven’t there been boys or men who became “radio stations”, broadcasting to their friends, after they had seen their women off? Are there not men who did nothing but claimed they did everything? What we need to address and to learn lessons from are many.

A woman should not be desperate for a man in her life. Her reason for being on earth is neither marriage nor motherhood. Both help the purpose of existence if they are well understood. The human body is meant to be inviolable, being the greatest gift from God to earth-man. For my marriage, for example, I declined to recite the familiar line of Thy Body I Thee Worship after the marriage officer. She looked at me. I looked at her penetratingly in the eye. She moved on to other lines. I was glad because I am not meant to worship a human being but my Maker. Remember that is a vow, a promise, and we are not meant to make promises we cannot keep. At the reception, my wife and I disappointed the guests when we kissed on cheeks and not frontally on the lips. Female singers open themselves up too much on stage and in videos to make money. The result is that all sort of dirty thought forms from men hangs about them and follow them everywhere, one step after another, they keep yielding until they hit a calamity. For in the Law of attraction of homogeneous species, the dirty thought formed around them would attract more dirty thought forms until the crowd thickens to foment materialisations or dirty physical events around them. That was what happen to Tiwatope Savage and is probably waiting to happen to women like her whose karmic returns in the Law of Sowing and Reaping are most probably on the way. Such are the storylines of many of us as well.

Tiwa’s lover is a thief and a pretentious lover. In addition, he is a traitor. He lied that he loved her to win her trust. When he couldn’t get her money, he decided to destroy her. If we circulate this video, we help him to make money, we support a liar, traitor, murderer. If we support this man, we support a man who denigates womanhood, a man who doesn’t value the normal life of our children on whom he has unleashed this video, a man who does not care what this video would impact on the six-year-old son of Tiwatope who probably has been seeing him as “daddy” and calling him as such. This child may need the care of psychologists as he grows up. My hope is that he will not feel bad about his mother. I hope that the child will recognise that the mother expressed her feelings in a secure environment. I hope his paths would be led to recognition that a child is a gift to the right mother, that, if his mother was not the right mother for him, he would not have been sent to her.

I hope that he would grow up into a fine gentleman who would respect, honour and protect women, marriage and parenthood. I hope that Tiwatope would arise today, shrug off the ugly memories of this man, give us a beautiful album on True Love, Trusting Love, Destruction, Covetousness, Betrayal and Psychic Murder, among others. I hope that the lyrics will elevate our understanding of The Purpose of Existence and of Earth-Life. I do not know what her songs sound like. I am 71 and do not listen to anyhow music. But I look forward to the next album by Tiwatope Savage.