I published a while ago that actress Chioma Chukwuka quarrelled with a female reporter while on plane
well, AY Comedian has defended Chioma and has chosen to give his account of the event. The narration is long oh but I was able to pick out that Chioma wasn’t exactly guilty and the journalist wasn’t trying to interview her…
“It was quite unfortunate to read a report from today’s Vanguard Online
in favour of Yemisi (their staff), as against Chioma Akpotha who was
publicly insulted alongside every Igbo speaking individual on that
flight, by Yemisi….I was on
that same flight like many other industry people including a good number
of foreigners who flew in to be a part of AMAA 2013.
The poor Chioma only succeeded in getting her multiple visa of
becoming a “lousy bitch” when Yemisi was brushing through the president
of Eko International Film Festival, Mr. Hope Obioma Opara. She was
obviously in a hurry to make the exit when the flight touched ground.
All Chioma said to her was “take it easy they are yet to open the exit
door”.
She brushed her way through to two other ladies who sat in front; the
next word that came out of her mouth was “lousy Igbo
girls”. Apparently, Chioma heard what she said and asked “did you just
refer to me as a Lousy Igbo girl? The best response from your Yemisi was
“what if I did?” (I am so sure she wouldn’t ask an Angelina Jolie or a
Kim Kardashian that same question if she were to be on the same flight
with any of them).
Perhaps she would have started twitting immediately, saying “AMAA
things…. Kim just asked me to take it easy, they are yet to open the
exit door. Wow wow wow 2013 my year of exit opening doors”). But
definitely not to a Nollywood multiple awards winning happily married
actress with kids.
Chioma Akpotha, Grace Ama, and Nollywood producer
Chinwe Egwuagu were still busy playing catch-up with Yemisi when she
went on target again like the Boston Bombers to launch another verbal
bullet.
This time she called them ‘LOUSY BITCHES’.
Chioma Akpotha managed to get off the bomb scene through the help of
some of us who were on hand to stop the detonation of further bombs by
Yemisi. Not even knowing she was a journalist from The Vanguard
Newspapers, Chioma said “I will allow my God to fight you. It’s even
possible that it is an Igbo person that is paying your salary. I
wouldn’t blame you because AMAA brought us together. I am sure that I
can convincingly pay your salary”.
For your information, Chioma Akpotha did not deserve all she got from
your colleague ‘Yemisi’, whom you have proudly disguised or baptized to
become a Lagos based Journalist. Who knows? Maybe by tomorrow “Miss
Lagos based Journalist” could go through another baptism of fire to
become “According to a reliable source”, all in the name of bringing
down a fellow creation to the excitement of your colleague who ought to
go to God and ask for forgiveness.
I hope she did not forget to let you into the corrective measures I
gave to her? I am not a fan of anyone with uncultured attitude and
public display of visible arrogance. Kindly ask her to remind you, so
that I will not fail to be on your list of the next set of
career-killing candidates. Or should I tell you the opinion of others
concerning Yemisi on that same flight?
I guess there won’t be any need for that, because I am very sure of
us having many more LOUSY BITCHES cut across the Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa,
Ghanaians, South Africans and Americans on that AMAA flight. I would
intentionally skip the question of the speedy hibernation in tribal
cocoons, which is indeed unfortunate even as we try to push for a more
detribalized mindset. (Please don’t mistake me for an Igbo man or take
it that I am fighting for my “IGBO LOUSY BITCHES”. I am a full-blooded
Yoruba Man like Yemisi)
Finally, my dear Madam Yemisi, kindly permit me to point out that
contrition is a sign of strength, not weakness. To my “Amiable honorable
I must defend my colleague till death”, I would like to plead with you
in your capacity as a widely followed public reporter, to kindly grant
objectivity its rightful place in your reports.
‘A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth has a
chance to get its pants on.’ But three things cannot be long hidden: the
sun, the moon, and the truth. May we bear in mind that the Internet and
social media have come to stay. We now have millions of followers who
would at least hear our own side of the story before we are judged or
criticised.
See full narration here
