Dwarfs, who, until recently, dot major traffic spots in Lagos, selling DVD collections of movies produced by them, have their own fair share of attraction and love from ladies. Some of them cornered at their rendezvous in Oshodi area of the Lagos confessed they are never in want of love from ladies, who are daily attracted to them due to their special qualities.
In a sensational but compelling interview, the dwarfs revealed the reasons ladies run after them for love.
When Saturday Sun visited for the interview, Ogbaji, who seems to be their unofficial spokesperson, was doing his laundry, in a public bathroom. Okorie, his other partner, was having his bath. When they were ready to talk, the interview started. Midway in the interview Ochuko and Emeka strolled in and joined.
While giving reasons they are no longer on the expressway hawking movies, Benue State-born Ogbaji, who described himself as a movie marketer said: “ It is not that we left the roads. The fact is that we are constantly chased by KAI (Kick Against Indiscipline) operatives. They said the governor has prohibited street hawking and you know we do most of our hawking in traffic. But we are just managing our lives, looking for favours, here and there. There is nothing else that we do except hawking. We act in our movies and market our films. That is the only job we do to feed. We are appealing to government to help us. It is better we are hawking to feed ourselves than joining criminal gangs and if the government wants to send us out of the streets, it must find another means of livelihood for us.”
Contrary to the notion that these dwarfs are school dropouts and illiterates, Ochuko said some of them are as educated as any other person. He revealed that not only that some of them are secondary school certificate holders, some are graduates, even as those who stopped at First School Leaving Certificate are skilled labourers.
According to him, “the problem is when it’s time for employment, discrimination begins to be observed because of our situations. Does our height affect our brains?
For me, I finished my primary education and was learning the business of selling electronics, but it was aborted when I came to Lagos because of acting.”
Dramatic and sensationally, Ogbaji spoke of how he joined the dwarfs’ colony. He said: “My people came to market their films in my place from Lagos and saw me on the way. Somehow, they convinced me to join them. That was how I came to Lagos and joined in acting. From there I also joined in marketing films.”
All the while, Ogbaji, who was dead serious, managed a smile when asked about his love life. “I am not married yet. I want to first of all make enough money to feed my family. But I have a lover. She is tall. You want to know why we date tall girls? Well, it is even the girls themselves that like us. I think it is basically love. Though we are short from the waist up, we are usually very long under our pants, from the waist down and the ladies love that aspect of us very well,” he declared.
The next set of questions returned his serious looks, as he tried to give answers on the dwarf association.
“We have only one association, but nobody is the president. We all are our own bosses. It is so because we used to be under one man, Ichie Matthias, but he no longer assists us. He is now into sachet water business. Since he stopped assisting us, we all went our separate ways. It was probably another group that benefited from T.B Joshua’s largesse,” he said.
With his hair combed backwards and a visible ring on one side of his wide nose, Ochuko maintained that a plaza, in Oshodi, is where they converge to begin their business for the day. He also hinted that most of them sleep there while appealing to government to assist them.
“I want government to give me a job and to provide a roof over my head. I would so much appreciate it if I could get an estate to live in. Basically, anything government can help us with.”
When reminded that they also make a living by acting and dance in shows, he replies thus: “What we get cannot make us live as we ought to. If we have enough capital, we can do other business and leave this risky hawking job. Apart from the risk of running after vehicles on the express way, whenever KAI catches us, they will seize our films and take us to Alausa where we cough out N10, 000 upwards for our release. How much are we making? Tell government that we are really suffering!”
Friendship across the Niger
The case of Christian Emeka from Abia State is not too different from that of Ochuko. Married and has a child, Emeka said he was convinced to join the Lagos branch of their association when they came to his village to market their films in 2004.
On his challenges, he says: “It is God who created us too, but the only common challenge is that people usually make cynical remarks when we pass and some will abuse us.”
Emeka refutes the claim that they get assistance from good spirited Nigerians. “No, it is only from the sales of films that we get our daily bread. Except once in a while when we go marketing and somebody gives us like N100. 00 if he is not buying our film.”
On whether they are members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria he said: “Our kind of movie is quite different from the normal movie. It is just one man that used to assist us then. We shoot and do the marketing on commission basis. But now, we are no longer with him. What we do now is still sell some of our movies and also sell other films for other people on a commission basis.”
Emeka also appeals to the government to assist them. “We are all Nigerians, whether tall or short. We should be included in the scheme of things. They just abandoned us as if we are not Nigerians. We are like minus to them. As we hawk in traffic, they drive past us as if we don’t exist. They should come to our aid and remember that we are also Nigerians who voted them to power,” he said.
For Chidi Okorie, from Enugu State, movie making and marketing is better than the butcher business he left in his hometown before joining his colleagues in 2008.
Curious to know how they get information of traffic jam in any particular area, Okorie said: “It is not that we know where traffic is heavy. We just scatter ourselves and wherever we meet traffic jam, we sell our stuff. I won’t forget to add that government should help us. We are like other normal people. I am the only short person in my family. My parents and siblings are all tall.”
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Dwarfs - Why Ladies Run After Us
Dwarfs, who, until recently, dot major traffic spots in Lagos, selling DVD collections of movies produced by them, have their own fair share of attraction and love from ladies. Some of them cornered at their rendezvous in Oshodi area of the Lagos confessed they are never in want of love from ladies, who are daily attracted to them due to their special qualities.
In a sensational but compelling interview, the dwarfs revealed the reasons ladies run after them for love.
When Saturday Sun visited for the interview, Ogbaji, who seems to be their unofficial spokesperson, was doing his laundry, in a public bathroom. Okorie, his other partner, was having his bath. When they were ready to talk, the interview started. Midway in the interview Ochuko and Emeka strolled in and joined.
While giving reasons they are no longer on the expressway hawking movies, Benue State-born Ogbaji, who described himself as a movie marketer said: “ It is not that we left the roads. The fact is that we are constantly chased by KAI (Kick Against Indiscipline) operatives. They said the governor has prohibited street hawking and you know we do most of our hawking in traffic. But we are just managing our lives, looking for favours, here and there. There is nothing else that we do except hawking. We act in our movies and market our films. That is the only job we do to feed. We are appealing to government to help us. It is better we are hawking to feed ourselves than joining criminal gangs and if the government wants to send us out of the streets, it must find another means of livelihood for us.”
Contrary to the notion that these dwarfs are school dropouts and illiterates, Ochuko said some of them are as educated as any other person. He revealed that not only that some of them are secondary school certificate holders, some are graduates, even as those who stopped at First School Leaving Certificate are skilled labourers.
According to him, “the problem is when it’s time for employment, discrimination begins to be observed because of our situations. Does our height affect our brains?
For me, I finished my primary education and was learning the business of selling electronics, but it was aborted when I came to Lagos because of acting.”
Dramatic and sensationally, Ogbaji spoke of how he joined the dwarfs’ colony. He said: “My people came to market their films in my place from Lagos and saw me on the way. Somehow, they convinced me to join them. That was how I came to Lagos and joined in acting. From there I also joined in marketing films.”
All the while, Ogbaji, who was dead serious, managed a smile when asked about his love life. “I am not married yet. I want to first of all make enough money to feed my family. But I have a lover. She is tall. You want to know why we date tall girls? Well, it is even the girls themselves that like us. I think it is basically love. Though we are short from the waist up, we are usually very long under our pants, from the waist down and the ladies love that aspect of us very well,” he declared.
The next set of questions returned his serious looks, as he tried to give answers on the dwarf association.
“We have only one association, but nobody is the president. We all are our own bosses. It is so because we used to be under one man, Ichie Matthias, but he no longer assists us. He is now into sachet water business. Since he stopped assisting us, we all went our separate ways. It was probably another group that benefited from T.B Joshua’s largesse,” he said.
With his hair combed backwards and a visible ring on one side of his wide nose, Ochuko maintained that a plaza, in Oshodi, is where they converge to begin their business for the day. He also hinted that most of them sleep there while appealing to government to assist them.
“I want government to give me a job and to provide a roof over my head. I would so much appreciate it if I could get an estate to live in. Basically, anything government can help us with.”
When reminded that they also make a living by acting and dance in shows, he replies thus: “What we get cannot make us live as we ought to. If we have enough capital, we can do other business and leave this risky hawking job. Apart from the risk of running after vehicles on the express way, whenever KAI catches us, they will seize our films and take us to Alausa where we cough out N10, 000 upwards for our release. How much are we making? Tell government that we are really suffering!”
Friendship across the Niger
The case of Christian Emeka from Abia State is not too different from that of Ochuko. Married and has a child, Emeka said he was convinced to join the Lagos branch of their association when they came to his village to market their films in 2004.
On his challenges, he says: “It is God who created us too, but the only common challenge is that people usually make cynical remarks when we pass and some will abuse us.”
Emeka refutes the claim that they get assistance from good spirited Nigerians. “No, it is only from the sales of films that we get our daily bread. Except once in a while when we go marketing and somebody gives us like N100. 00 if he is not buying our film.”
On whether they are members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria he said: “Our kind of movie is quite different from the normal movie. It is just one man that used to assist us then. We shoot and do the marketing on commission basis. But now, we are no longer with him. What we do now is still sell some of our movies and also sell other films for other people on a commission basis.”
Emeka also appeals to the government to assist them. “We are all Nigerians, whether tall or short. We should be included in the scheme of things. They just abandoned us as if we are not Nigerians. We are like minus to them. As we hawk in traffic, they drive past us as if we don’t exist. They should come to our aid and remember that we are also Nigerians who voted them to power,” he said.
For Chidi Okorie, from Enugu State, movie making and marketing is better than the butcher business he left in his hometown before joining his colleagues in 2008.
Curious to know how they get information of traffic jam in any particular area, Okorie said: “It is not that we know where traffic is heavy. We just scatter ourselves and wherever we meet traffic jam, we sell our stuff. I won’t forget to add that government should help us. We are like other normal people. I am the only short person in my family. My parents and siblings are all tall.”
(By Sam Anokam)
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