Opinion
NETIZENS STIRS UPROAR OVER A VIRAL VIDEO OF NOLLYWOOD ACTRESS EKENE UMENWA KNEELING BEFORE GOSPEL MUSICIAN, MOSES BLISS ON HER WEDDING DAY
Nollywood actress Ekene Umenwa, popularly known as Palazzo and Jesus last baby, was seen overly excited as she went on bended knees before Nigerian popular gospel musician Moses Bliss on her wedding day, stirring so many reactions on social media.
Ekene Umenwa, who got married to her heartthrob Alex Ogbodo in the city of Benin last weekend, had her best friend Deacon Famous, who happens to be the MC of the occasion, surprise her with the presence of Ebuka songs and Moses Bliss.
According to Deacon Famous, Ekene had wanted a worship session for her wedding; she wanted to have Ebuka songs and Moses Bliss as gospel artists, but after much effort to get them invited, it was futile. Deacon went further to make it a surprise by going behind her back to get this artist to the venue.
Ekene, who had least expected to see this artist, went overboard with joy as she went on bended knees as well as hugging him.
The caption that has gone viral on social media is that ‘Ekene Umenwa abandoned her husband to kneel for Moses Bliss’. Some men even went further to call her husband a simp, laying emphasis on how disrespectful it is for her to kneel before a man in the presence of her husband.
Most men dwelled on the fact that they would have walked away and ended the marriage if their wife had pulled such a stunt on them.
stating that it’s high time ladies were educated on how to control their emotions. While they are people dwelling on the negative, they are also people saying that ‘the couple should be allowed to breathe’. With reference to her being star-struck and being overly excited, it could have been anyone.
Others said she knelt for the grace of God and not for Moses Bliss, and for some, that’s how people worship pastors.
It is no longer news that we love to trend for the wrong reason in this country. All I see is a one-sided story that has been flying on the internet; no caption reads that she kneeled before her friend Deacon Famous in appreciation for pulling the big surprise on her. We were just too fast to pass judgement over her action in sighting the gospel artist.
Was it actually extra to kneel before Moses Bliss and Deacon Famous? Of course it was, and because there’s no template on how to be expressive of one’s happiness, it is advisable to leave that to the judgement of the man she is married to. And if he doesn’t see anything wrong with what she did, I don’t think it’s in your place to school her dear online in-laws.
To those who are calling her husband a simp, understand that respect means different acts for different men. Most men have grown beyond the average understanding of how life should be lived, especially when it comes to building a family.
It’s important we learn to dwell on the positive rather than spread the negative so fast.
Congratulations, Ekene Umenwa.
Description of Me: Doris Chisom is a writer with over 50 published articles. She is a graduate of mass communication from the prestigious Enugu State University of Science and Technology. She's also a parenting and teen coach with the aim of raising balanced teenagers with the God factor and intentional parents who are concerned with the nurturing of a child mentally, spiritually, academically, morally, socially, emotionally, and psychologically.
