A video has emerged online showing the moment an elderly female MC prayed during a naming ceremony that the baby should embezzle Nigeria’s money.
In the video shared online, the woman slipped a pen into the newborn baby’s hand and announced the his name as Akorede.
She then prayed that baby Akorede’s name will be written amongst those who use the pen to embezzle Nigeria’s funds.
The prayer has stirred reactions and a conversation about how corruption has become accepted as means to wealth and success in Nigeria.
Other reactions:
beedee_fabrics: “Am not from Yoruba but I think she doesn’t mean harm,she meant she will use education to eat.Abeg correct me if am wrong.”
officialpeaceisrael: “If na Igbo woman now… we no go hear word oo… pls the same comment you would have commented if it were to be Igbo, comment it.”
theincredible_mc: “I speak Yoruba. She definitely doesn’t mean it in a bad way. She means the child will have an office job through education and not do menial jobs to survive as many people believe that having a good office job means you’ll be a big man ( falsehood). Ko Owo jé doesn’t mean embezzle within context here. It’s just a typification of how plenty his wealth will be in Nigeria. Afterall, the Bible says we will eat the good of the land. I sincerely don’t think he meant it in any bad way.”
matmoda88: “Good evening. I think there is a mistake in this video. Please go back and watch again but listen to the words carefully segment. Translated as simple as possible, the lady was praying that “amongst the people in Nigeria who uses biro (pen) to defraud the government, this child name will not be mentioned” Even if he becomes a Governor his name will not be mentioned amongst those who defraud Government. In effect she should just have prayed that the child will not use the “biro” (a sign of educational advancement) to defraud Nigeria. We all heard the bad stuff because someone put it in our head before we listened to the video.”
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