The ongoing Big Brother Naija, a reality TV show based on the Big Brother TV series in which 12 contestants live in an isolated house and compete for a large cash prize worth $100,000 at the end of the show by avoiding being evicted by viewers has been described as the immoral programme in recent times.
Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie and his
Ibadan counterpart, Archbishop Alaba Job have hit at the reality show,
concluding that its morally unjustifiable and, therefore, called on
relevant authorities to save impressionable Nigerian young ones from
obscenities.
Speaking at a recent ceremony put together by Catholic Artistes and
Entertainers Association of Nigeria, CAEAN, in collaboration with Social
Communications as well as the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, CSN, the
twosome called on the CAEAN to stay away from such immoral
presentations in the name of entertainment.
They also called on the regulating agency to immediately yank off the
programme without any further delay. Former Catholic Archbishop of
Ibadan, Archbishop Job, condemned the reality show. According to him,
apart from the mouth-watering profit the sponsoring companies stand to
gain, the said TV reality show has no single positive impact on the
Nigerian citizens neither does it have on its dwindling economy. He
added that the reality show only celebrates obscenity, eroticism and
idleness.
The archbishop called on Christians to wake from their slumber and take
to their responsibilities by being salt and light of the nation in their
thought and actions. “It is time for Christians to know that we are
ruining the morality of this nation. Those engaged in this programme get
involved in series of immoral acts and they are rewarded. That is very
bad. The programme is not projecting our culture as an African nation.
Are they projecting immorality for the future and this kind of
immorality will ruin us. History proves it, the nations that went amoral
all went asunder and the people ruined. If what they are doing is what
they want our children to imbibe, then we are working for the ruin of
this nation,” he emphasised.
Catholic Archbishops declare BBNaija as ‘immoral programme’
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