By ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE
Gospel singer Nathaniel Bassey has petitioned the IGP over the nasty accusation by four social media influenzas that he’s the dad of Mercy Chinwo’s baby.
Mercy, too, has sued five persons in that regard. Great move on both sides!
When I first came across the mind-boggling allegation, my thought was, ‘Wow, people are daring!’ And, really, they are.
The social media irritants probably categorized Nath Bassey in the same pool as late singer Mohbad’s wife.
Immediately Mohbad passed on, online urchins started wagging their tongues and accusing someone in Mohbad’s circle of being the dad of his only known child.
Mohbad’s dad, too, for every unconvincing reasons, has been clamoring for DNA test if his grandson must be acceptable to the extended family.
Meanwhile, Bassey and Mercy must pursue their separate cases to conclusive ends. They should ask for the stiffest compensations possible.
I had expected any of the loudmouthed online gender activists and lawyers to at least educate Mohbad’s wife that she only owed her husband explanations if there had been reasonable grounds to suspect their son’s paternity.
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In other words, paternity matter is strictly between the two people who made the baby, to the exclusion of anyone else, including parents of the couples and every other nosy person.
The way people run their mouths because of the anonymity of the Internet is one of the reasons one may be unable to totally disagree with those calling for social media regulation.
Meanwhile, Bassey and Mercy must pursue their separate cases to conclusive ends. They should ask for the stiffest compensations possible. Only then would people learn to speak sensibly in public space.
And should anyone want to tell them to forgive their errant accusers, they should ask such persons to go dust up their Bibles and read Ecclesiastes 8:11 and Job 4:8.
