I boarded a flight from Amsterdam to Lagos. When I got to my seat an elderly woman was sitting there. I told her politely that she was sitting on my seat. She didn't move and didn't say a word. I called on one of the crew to please ask her to move to her seat.
The crew member asked for her ticket. She said she couldn't speak English but Yoruba. Some other passengers then told her in Yoruba to bring out her boarding pass. She did and it showed it wasn't her seat. It was mine. The woman still refused to leave saying that her allocated seat was between two men and she doesn't want to be between two men.
I told the crew member that I paid for the seat for my comfort and I need to have the seat. He pleaded with me to take the seat beside her and during the flight he will look for another seat for me. For the sake of peace and given the age of the woman, I agreed.
When the flight took off, the woman was now talking to me in Yoruba, saying "shebi Omo Yoruba ni e"....suggesting that I shouldn't have insisted on claiming the seat I paid for because we share same ethnicity. I told her in Yoruba, that the only reason I did so was because of her age not ethnicity.
As luck will have it, I hit it off with the white guy sitting beside me. He was travelling to Lagos to get married to his Nigerian Fiancée. So we talked, culture shock, business and entertainment. The woman kept looking at us and at one point interjected in perfect ENGLISH something along the lines of "So, you can be this friendly and you were stressing me to leave my seat".
Imagine my shock. Not only me, the women in the adjourning seats who had joined to plead with me to let it go. I asked her now very loudly "SO YOU CAN SPEAK ENGLISH....AND YOU WERE PRETENDING THAT YOU CAN ONLY SPEAK YORUBA?" I told her in Yoruba "Mummy oni oruko till Yoruba ma'npe ewa beyen...sugbon nitoripe mo je omooluwabi, I will restrain from saying it".
Throughout the flight, she kept trying to make conversations with me, asking me where I am from, telling me what she went to do abroad. I wasn't interested. The dishonesty was too much for me to overlook.
There is something about us that permits bad behaviour. It is regardless of age or ethnicity, status of even religion. We are simply accepting of bad behaviour and willing to rationalize it for the most silly reasons.
If it is about Ezra’s past, there is nothing to be investigated. He tweeted his thoughts (and possibly actions) out loud enough. They read like an open confession at times. If there are victims from that past, they should step out. They deserve justice, if they exist.
Without that, I doubt there is any legal basis for any crime off tweets that aren’t proven to have happened. This is a legal position, not my opinion. To be clear, those tweets alone cannot make him spend 1 second in any jail. You need a body.
However, to investigate Ezra post 2020 without adding someone like Kiki Mordi to the conversation is to be biased and decidedly blind from the go.
Kiki Mordi wasn’t just Ezra’s friend, irrespective of her attempt to treat him like some regular friend now the times have switched - see the wishy washy nonsense statement below, posted on stories so it’d disappear by tomorrow - she was his buddie. A deep one clearly. Deep deep deepest one.
If his heart is breaking wherever he is, a large chunk must be breaking for Kiki Mordi’s statement.
He had her name on his bio for years. He clearly loved her. He appeared to have funded her socially and professionally. He probably invested or donated to her Document Women project. She probably took trips on his bills. He clearly elevated her social status. We know who she was before he adopted her, as whatever it is they really were. Happy for her she can be posting her statement from a holiday location today. Life is good.
That he picked such a person that wrote this about him is one of his many failings. Choosing his ops as allies, buddies and who knows what else?
But that cannot excuse the writer. This reads like she sees herself as some moral arbiter. She cannot be. She cannot be, the same way I cannot walk on water. Not will not, she cannot!
If Ezra committed any crimes, in a sane world, she’d immediately be a suspect by default. Any investigation of Ezra where Kiki Mordi isn’t treated as a co-conspirator - at least - is a blind one ab initio.
This is how the real world runs. I understand how these things are different on social media where foolishness and blindness are by design. Any sensible person who’s more than we have seen in the last 2 days must be disgusted by this holier than thou nonsense statement.
PS; avoid friendship/allyship with people who cannot survive without the validation and dopamine they derive from faceless accounts on the internet. It’s never worth it.