Tammy Steez (Port harcourt based artiste) writes:

Rivers State Carnival "CARNIRIV" Is Nothing But A Waste Of Public Funds.

It Does Not In Any Way Generate Any Revenue Or Economic Value To The State Because.

1. It Has Never Been Beneficial To The Entertainers Of The Rivers State.

(A) There Are People Here In Rivers State That Has World Class Stages, Lights, Sounds Etc.

(B) CARNIRIV Organizers: You People Should Stop Spending Our Rivers State Money Going To Lagos And Start Paying Huge Some Of Millions And Transportation To Get All Those Things Down To Port Harcourt.

(C) There's A Saying That: What You're Looking For In Sokoto Is In Your Shokoto.

2. The CARNIRIV Organizers Don't Seem To Recognize The Fact That, Your Own Is Your Own Or Our Own Is Our Own. So If They Don't Empower Their Own How Do They Meet Up The Standard Of The People They Value As The So Called Stars Whom The Port Harcourt Entertainers Are Better Than Musically.

3. The Organizers Of The "CARNIRIV" Will Bill A Lagos Artiste For Our Own Rivers State Carnival And Pay Them Huge Some Of Millions Ranging From N5million, N6million, N8million, N10million And Above Under "I Beg"

4. Then The Port Harcourt Entertainers Will Be Called For A Meeting: "You Know That People Don't Know You Guys That Much, So We Want To Use This Means And Showcase, Expose And Promote You People To The Public, So We Have An Envelope Of N50,000 & N100,000 For Each Of You And Also Take This As Thank You For Coming.

(A) That Is An Insult To Humanity As A True Rivers State Citizen.

(B) This Is A Big Disgrace To People Who Have In Mind To Degrade Their selves For The Sake Of Peanuts.

(C) It Is Just A Total Rubbish And Shame That, Some People Don't Know Their Left From Their Right. And Will Always Live In A Life Of Poverty Mentality And Low Esteemed

5. If The Organizers Of The "CARNIRIV" Empowers The Port Harcourt Entertainers With Those Amount Of Money, Which They Use "I Beg" To Pay The Lagos Entertainers, And Use It To Pay Each Port Harcourt Entertainer That's Billed For The Event, Won't He Or She Be Able To Get Him Or Herself A Good Car, House, Clothes, Shoes Etc, To Come Out And Present Him Or Herself Anywhere In A Public, Government Or Corporate Event That Is Taking Place Anywhere?

Wake Up My Good People Of Rivers State. Fight For Your Right, The State Belongs To Me And You And Not Strangers To Be Coming Here And Sap Us Down.

Let's Not Act As If We Forget So Easily, Knowing Fully Well That The Watch Dog "EFCC" Is Aware About Everything That's Going On And Some People Should Get Ready To Dance When The Drum Plays And To Dance To It.


Nigeria: Carniriv 2013 Climaxes As Amaechi Lists Carnival Benefits http://allafrica.com/stories/201312200430.html

CarniRiv official website http://www.carnirivnigeria.com/carnival/

Op wat is really ur prob? Do dey tell you that all Lagos based artiste are Lagosians. If ur local ph artiste want to get an invite for event like that let them step up their game. Eko o ni baje