How a woman tricked me to come to Lagos from my village – Charlie Boy

Upon his return from the USA, popular
musician, Charlie Boy, also known as Area
Father, returned to his village, Oguta in Imo
State, where he spent seven years. The son of a
retired Judge of the Supreme Court, Charlie
Boy, stuck to his guns as he insisted that for
him, it was music or nothing. But his meeting
with Tyna Onwudiwe in the village changed his
life.
Charlie Boy said, “I will never forget Tyna
Onwudiwe. While in the village, after my
return from overseas, I refused to work
although jobs were provided for me. I told my
parents that I knew what I wanted.
I wanted to become Charlie Boy. I became
Charlie Boy to tell the timid and myopic
Nigerians that you have the right to be what
you want to be, and that one must not follow
only a ‘zombie’ way of thinking and doing
things. Everybody cannot be the same and
everybody can’t follow the same way. You can’t
say I am crazy because I wear this, except you
too are crazy.
“When in the village for seven years after I
returned from America, I insisted that I was
going to play music. I told my parents and
calmly accepted to go my way when they told
me to do so. It was Tyna who came to rescue
me from the village to Lagos. I liked her
because she was like a perfect woman. She
encouraged me that I was going to succeed in
my venture. There were many people who saw
her as a mad woman. This was the only woman
that would spend her last kobo on somebody
else. Tyna didn’t want me to waste away in the
village, so, she tricked me to Lagos that a
recording company was going to wax my
music. I was shocked that she had prepared an
accommodation for me, with one year rent
already paid for. If not for her I would have
languished in jail. Man is a God to another
man,” he said.
Commenting on the state of the nation, the
Area Father faulted government’s neglect of
youths, likening some Nigerian leaders to
armed robbers. He said, “I identify with the
difficulties youths face in Nigeria, which bleed
my heart. Youths are the most deprived. How
would you expend resources on schooling or
some vocation only to remain jobless and
redundant in the society? I cry for this
country.
Painfully, this is happening in the midst of
abundant resources while our ‘yahoo-
yahoo’ (fraudulent) leaders choose to steal
from our common treasury. God will not stop
punishing them until they stop looting. I blame
myself, and our people for not confronting
them before now. We are at fault over the
untold injustice and oppression they heap on
us.”