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•Obafaye during the Channels TV programme that landed him in trouble
Mr. Shem Obafaye, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC
Lagos Commandant, who popularised the ‘My Oga At the Top’ joke has been
redeployed from his post.
Obafaye has been replaced by Mr. Adesuyi Clement, from the Oyo State Command.
Obafaye
became an object of snide remarks after he committed a gaffe when he
was guest on a breakfast show on Channels Television, a development that
embarrassed the NSCDC authorities. Hint of Obafaye’s removal was given,
weekend, when the Commandant General of the NSCDC, Mr. Olu Abolurin,
while visiting Lagos over the recent killings of two of his men,
introduced Clement as the new commandant of the NSCDC in Lagos to
pressmen.
Abolurin
did not give reasons for Obafaye’s replacement but many readily connect
the action to Obafaye’s embarrassing outing on the TV guest show.
The
NSCDC had, in the days following Obafaye’s poor showing, denied it had
taken any disciplinary action against him, though reports said he had
been suspended.
Obafaye’s ordeal began 12 March when he appeared
as a guest on Lagos-based Channels Television’s flagship morning
programme, Sunrise Daily.
The commandant had been prompted by the
show’s presenters to give the NSCDC’s website – following reports of a
recruitment scam that had to do with some people setting up a fake
website of the paramilitary organisation to con job seekers.
But
to the interviewers’ surprise, Obafaye said he could not give a website
now, and it would turn out, in his words, “My Oga at the top” (his
boss), would give a different website later.
The presenters
prodded the officer further, explaining that they merely wanted the
organisation’s functional website, just so the public could be wary of
falling into the hands of frauds, who had set up the fake website.
Obafaye,
behaving as though he now understood the question clearly, shocked his
interviewers, and viewers alike, even further when he gave the website
as merely: “ww.nscdc”, paused a few seconds, and added “that’s all”,
without including the “.com” that should have completed the website
address.
After Obafaye’s howler, the footage of the interview
instantly went viral on social media, making him an object of several
rude jokes, including graphic illustrations on Blackberry Messenger,
Facebook , Twitter, T-shirts, and musical mixes by DJs.
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