Obafuye
Shem, the Lagos State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps, may have accomplished in an hour what it takes some
decades of hard work to do. No one could have envisaged that Mr Shem’s
appearance on the Channels TV breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily,
Tuesday would be his short route to fame and stardom. According to The Punch, Shem was invited to speak on “Cash for job racketeering” and other employment irregularities in the NSCDC and other government departments. It was the man’s hilarious word choices and dramatic gestures put on in his effort to evade a simple question more than his inability to tell his interviewers his organisation’s website that subsequently made him a social media phenomenon.
His blunders
became the butt of jokes that were trending on Twitter for the fourth
day running on Friday. There have been jokes, cartoons, customised
T-shirts and, at least, a song, all featuring “my oga at the top”. A
song posted on YouTube by DJ Ziggy featuring NSCDC had 23,220 hits on
Friday. Here is the exchange that has made Mr Obafuye a celebrity.
What is the website of the NSCDC?
Yes, we believe … no, I cannot categorically tell you one now, because the one that we are going to …
Do you have multiple websites?
Wait, wait, the one we are going to make use of, I am not the one that will create it….
See, the question is, what is your website?
Wait.…the one
that we are going to make use of, is going to be made known by my oga at
the top. Yes! I can’t announce one now and my oga says it’s another one
we suppose to use.
Are you saying you have multiple websites?
We cannot have multiple websites, but the one that my oga…
No no no, it’s not the one for employment.
What
is your website? The one you use normally, your official website. When
you want to know about NSCDC, what website do you go to?
If you want to know about the NSCDC as at now, ok, www.nscdc. So, that’s all.
www.nscdc that’s it?
END
The official website of the NSCDC is nscdc.gov.ng
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