ME: What do you think about Baba Ijebu?
NIGERIAN: Baba Ijebu? How can you ask an educated person that kind of question? Baba Ijebu is for touts and illiterates. Stupid people will be wasting their small money. Baba Ijebu ko, Baba Ekiti ni
ME: What about MMM?
NIGERIAN: MMM is God sent. You can’t understand it. The kind of returns I am making on it cannot be explained. You don’t need to analyze it. Just do it.
ME: What do you think about suicide?
NIGERIAN: Suicide?? Olorun ma je, Mo taka oshi. How can I kill myself? How can I wake up to go and jump off a bridge? Why will I tie a rope around my neck? Am I mad? Suicide is not African. It is for Oyinbos who have eaten and are full.
ME: What of Unprotected Sex?
NIGERIAN: Aaaaah, Osha mo, Fiyen le, Mi o le fiyen para lailai. Ora yen ma n da se duro, Awa nawo steady steady ni.
ME: Any thoughts on Mental health?
NIGERIAN: We need to care for each other. People are really depressed. You know a lot of people on Twitter and facebook suffer from depression. We need to reach out to people. Church people need to stop condemning people just because they are ill.
ME: So can we go and extend this mental support to ‘Taju Danger’?
NIGERIAN: Who is ‘Taju Danger’?
ME: Taju Danger is the one that walks naked at Ajose Roundabout
NiGERIAN: Chineke me, I reject it in Jesus name. Me? Go and talk to a madman? Onyeala ?? Back to sender. Let his family members go and help him.
