Catholic
Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos and his Ibadan counterpart, Archbishop
Alaba Job, have lambasted the ongoing Big Brother Naija reality TV show,
calling for its ban.
Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, His Eminence Anthony Cardinal Okogie (left) with the
Director, Social Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Very Rev. Msgr Gabriel Osu, at a press briefing
While speaking at a recent ceremony put together by Catholic
Artistes and Entertainers Association of Nigeria (CAEAN), Catholic
Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie and his Ibadan
counterpart, Archbishop Alaba Job, hit out at the ongoing Big Brother
Naija reality show, concluding that it is morally unjustifiable and,
therefore, called on relevant authorities to save impressionable
Nigerian young ones from obscenities.
The ongoing Big Brother Naija, is a reality TV show based on the
Big Brother TV series in which 12 contestants live in an isolated house
and compete for a large cash prize worth N25 million at the end of the
show by avoiding being evicted by viewers.
The clerics who spoke at the event whic was in collaboration with
Social Communications as well as the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria
(CSN), called on the CAEAN to stay away from such immoral presentations
in the name of entertainment, and also called on the regulating agency
to immediately yank off the programme without any further delay.
Former Catholic Archbishop of Ibadan, Archbishop Job, condemned the
reality show. According to him, apart from the mouth-watering profit
the sponsoring companies stand to gain, the said TV reality show has no
single positive impact on the Nigerian citizens neither does it have on
its dwindling economy, adding that the reality show only celebrates
obscenity, eroticism and idleness.
According to Vanguard, the archbishop called on Christians to wake
from their slumber and take to their responsibilities by being salt and
light of the nation in their thought and actions.
"It is time for Christians to know that we are ruining the
morality of this nation. Those engaged in this programme get involved in
series of immoral acts and they are rewarded. That is very bad. The
programme is not projecting our culture as an African nation.
"Are they projecting immorality for the future and this kind of
immorality will ruin us. History proves it, the nations that went
amoral all went asunder and the people ruined. If what they are doing is
what they want our children to imbibe, then we are working for the ruin
of this nation," he emphasized.
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