‘MY OGA AT THE TOP’: A MESSAGE TO ALL


Channels TV: what is the website of NSCDC?

Shem: the website of NSC…NSCDC…yes will
be
made known…I cannot categorically tell
you one
now…because the one that…

Channels TV: (cuts in) you have multiple
websites?

Shem: wait, wait…the one we are going to
make
use of, I am not the one that is going to
create it.

Channels TV: see, the question is what is
your
website?

Shem: (cuts in) waaait , the one we are
going to
make use of…is go…is going to remain
know by
(raising right index finger) my oga at the
top. I
can’t announce one now and my oga says
it’s
another one.

Channels TV: you mean NSCDC has multiple
websites?

Shem: see, we cannot have multiple
websites, but
the one that…that…my oga will say

Channels TV: not the one for employment.
what
is your website now. The one you use
normally.
Your official website. If you want to know
about
NSCDC, what website do you go to?

Shem: okay, if you want to know about
NSCDC as
at now?

Channels TV: exactly.

Shem: okay, ww.nscdc

Channels TV: yes

Shem: yes, so… (Coughs). That’s all.

Channels TV: ww.nscdc? …that’s it?

Shem: yes.

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A person willing to be acquainted with the
leading
distraction in Nigeria need not go far before
he
hears someone shout; ‘you are my oga at
the top’,
‘my website is dobiyu dobiyu dot daz all’,
‘lemme
first of all ask my oga at the top’ and so on.
Or
perhaps he might even be fortunate to
catch a
glimpse of one of the polos and shirts
customised to celebrate this act of; shall we
say
mediocrity, ignominy or spirited
witlessness? We
can logically conclude that a Nigerian who
is
unaware about the tale is either among the
71.57% of Nigerians without internet access
or
one of the 55.3% without access to TV.

The topical hilarious, yet disastrous ‘my oga
at
the top’ saga is one which, in my sincere
opinion,
should oblige us to engage in deep
introspection
on our predicament as a nation.

Some are of the view that Mr Obafaiye
Shem, the
Lagos state commandant of the Nigeria
Security
and Civil Defence Corps and the icon in this
drama, ought to resign or better still be
sacked
for committing such a weighty blooper. But
then,
I think that this should not be the case. The
only
flaw people who are critical of the man can
point
out is that which concerns the
organisation’s
website address; which I frankly deem
trivial and
negligible. I mean, the man has just recently
celebrated 100 days in office and a URL
address
is one of the things he should not be
bothered
with, especially giving the office he holds.
The
only problem I have is his trying to bluff his
way
out rather than just admitting his
unawareness,
and then his constant reference to his ‘oga
at the
top’, whoever that is.

Watching the video again, I could not but
laugh at
the laughable, unimpressive and
preposterous
manner in which Mr Shem arrogantly
answered
the question. He obviously seemed
uncomfortable and fidgety. Perchance, he
was
only caught up with the dilemma principle.

Some also opine that the startling diffusion
of the
incident is because of the activities of
companies
who want to divert attention from the
content of
the interview. However, I beg to disagree.
The
stuff has gone viral because Nigerian cyber-
surfers want it that way. The question we
should
ask ourselves is why do Nigerians want it
that
way. My answer: poverty and idleness. Most
Nigerians have little or nothing to do. We
needed
something to while away time, and ‘our oga
at the
top’ has come to give us just that.

Finally and finally, my message to all and
sundry
is one, to not be the best in whatever it is we
are
doing, but also to have little knowledge on
other
things as well. Because, seriously speaking, it
could have been anybody. Mr Shem,
surprisingly
has three degrees to his credit, yet he is yet
to
master the art of speechifying. This makes
one
wonder how he successfully scaled through
his
past interviews. Two, we should endeavour
to
take note of little subtle details because at
times
they matter more than the glaring ones. Let
us not
be extremely conservative to the extent of
not
paying attention to important things such as
the
format URL addresses take. And lastly, we all
know that in Nigeria, one needs ‘ogas at the
top’
to go places but never attempt to over-extol
them
while giving public addresses, most
especially on
channels TV.


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