Gospel singer, Mr. Bigger Ibekwe simply known as Mr. Bigger, has released a music video titled, ‘Yahoo Yahoo’.
According to the musician, the visual will serve as a campaign against financial crime, particularly financial fraud.
Mr. Bigger, who is renowned for his gospel hits, stated that the video is streaming on YouTube, music max and other platforms.
The Theatre Arts graduate from University of Benin and Masters holder in International Relations and Politics, with emphasis on Conflict Resolutions, from Deaken University, Canberra Australia, said his latest work, just as the previous ones, were inspired by God.
In his words: “As an artiste, I don’t just sing songs for the sake of it, I do it as a result of God’s instruction and direction to move with a particular song, targeting relevant issues in the country. All my songs follow instructions from God because music creation and artistic work are not entirely dependent on you. When creativity comes into you, you are no longer in control of yourself, you want to release it, else it will choke you.
“The video, ‘Yahoo Yahoo’, has become imperative at this time that yahoo-yahoo and other financial crimes have become a major problem to the society. Yahoo Yahoo is a cybercrime and numerous people have had their fortunes eroded by this scourge.
“Security operatives trying to tackle it go about it in a wrong way, thereby creating more public outcry. Harassment and perception of young people with dreadlocks as fraudsters by security personnel need to be properly checked and curtailed. The video addresses all these.”
Recalling an incident that triggered the inspiration of the masterpiece, Mr. Bigger said, “The work came out of an experience I had while going for a music video shoot with my crew. As we got to a police checkpoint, they stopped us and concluded the boys with me, because of their dreadlocks, were Yahoo Yahoo fraudsters. We were harassed by the security men owing to their perception of young boys with dreadlocks.
“Security operatives, like the song implies, need to calm down and discharge their duties professionally.
Frankly speaking, they need training and retraining to attain professionalism in their job. So the song is a compilation of what I think the society should be. The society should appreciate the policemen and they, in turn, should calm down in handling situation.”