Limpopo star, Kcee, got
the embarrassment of his life recently while on his American tour when cab
drivers quizzed him on the fate of the Chibok girls who were kidnapped by Boko
Haram in April. Kcee shared his experience during a press conference to unveil
PMAN’s peace pet project tagged Lighting Up The Unity Flame, at PMAN office,
Opebi, Lagos earlier in the week.
“I was thoroughly
embarrassed in the US a couple of days ago while I was on your. In New York,
the airport cab driver who took me to my hotel from the airport as soon as he
discovered I was Nigerian asked, ‘have they found those girls.’ I was so
embarrassed I had nothing to say. Again it happened in Los Angeles when another
cab man asked me the same question. Can you imagine a cab man saying that? It
was very embarrassing and I realised that whether we like it or not, where ever
we find ourselves in the world, we must defend the image of our country but we
have to start from the very source of this problems.”
According to the singer,
it was a reflection of the fact that indeed a lot was wrong about the image of
the country.
“That’s the reason I have
come out to support the PMAN today as it unveils its pet project which is the
lighting of the unity flame. Today it is Ebola, tomorrow it is Boko Haram and
then its kidnapping. We all need to pull our resources together to make change,
we have the capacity to do that.”
Initiated by PMAN, the train
will travel around the country before climaxing on October 1 with a National
Peace Concert at the Nnamdi Azikiwe National Stadium, Abuja on Independence Day
October 1.
The event also witnessed
the lighting of the PMAN flame of hope by the Chairman of the association’s
Caretaker Committee, Kevin Lucciano Gabriel, who was assisted by Kcee, Daddy Showkey,
Brownbread and Harrysong among a host of other artistes.
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