Eric Donaldson is in Ghana for the first time for a concert dubbed ‘Big Man Dance’ to be held tonight, at the plush Mensivc
Hotel in Accra for very important
personalities (VIPs) as well as February 5 at the La beach, organized by Moscow 1 entertainment and powered by Ghana’s
power station,
Radio Gold.
Appearing on ETV’s Late Night Celebrity Show on Friday 31
st
Jan, 2014 to talk about the concert, the host, Dzifa Affanie, asked
Eric how he gets inspired to write his songs. Eric replied “well I don’t
write my songs. Sometimes I get the songs and the rhythms while smoking
and
drinking.”
The host followed up; do you still drink at your age? “I used to drink but stopped about
5 years
ago. I used to drink Guinness a lot but stopped because I once went to
urinate and nothing came out. I went to the doctor and I was told I have
gall stones. Since then, I stopped drinking Guinness” Eric said.
Shocked, Dzifa asked Eric what he smokes; “I smoke what takes people
to jail. What is that? Dzifa asked. “Yes I smoke what people smoke and
go to jail. I smoke ganja. Yes I smoke ganja a lot” Eric Donaldson
revealed.
Dzifa asked Eric if the smoking of ganja should be legalized and Eric
said “smoking of ganja should be legalized.” Dzifa made the point that
ganja is not good and so should not be legalized but Eric reiterated
“ganja should be legalized.
“It is good for some and not good for others. Some people can ride
bicycles but others can’t. Some drive bicycles and crush but others
don’t. Those who crush don’t
have what it takes to use the bicycles. I smoke ganja. It’s good! It brings out creativity from the head” Eric said.
Eric went further to reveal that at age 66, he’s given birth to 7
children with 5 different women. He described marriage “as a life
sentence” hence, his
decision of
not marrying any of the women he had children with. He also said at age
66, he has many girlfriends and even currently, he is dating a 19 year
old girl. Finally, Eric declared that he does not care what people say
about him after his death.
Similarly, on 5th March 2013 Independence eve at the Ohene Djan
Stadium, was a concert organized by Charterhouse for RLG to mark the
Hope City Concert with American R&B singer
Chris Brown as the headline artiste.
During his performance, Chris Brown stopped and asked if there were
wee smokers in Ghana. “How many of y’all smoke weed?” he asked. He
further advised the audience “if anybody is tripping on you
smoking weed, f**k them.”Chris Brown went ahead and smoked (the weed) on stage.
While cheers erupted, the DJ played a voice recording, talking as if
it was Chris’ conscience talking, asking him why he was smoking. Chris
ignored the voices, pulled out his own blunt and lit up, puffing in
front of the audience while the DJ played a medley of songs that
promotes smoking or getting high through the loud speakers.
Oh Mother Ghana! Is this how loose our society is? Foreigners come to
our soil and without any respect to our legal and societal norms or
donts, spew rubbish and get away with it.
The host who
should have done
the sensible thing by educating Eric that ganja is an illicit drug per
Ghana’s laws, kept silent on it and made Eric’s comments seem as though
it’s no big deal.
Ghana’s Section 5 of narcotic drugs [Control Enforcement and
Sanctions] Act, 1990 stipulates that “a person shall not, without lawful
authority or excuse, smoke, sniff, consume, inject into the body or
otherwise administer a narcotic drug on the body of that person.’
I blame Eric Donaldson but not much. Big chunk of my blame goes to
our organizers who bring foreigners to Ghana but fail in orienting the
latter on our legal and moral tenets.
To our event organizers, I say “school foreigners about Ghana before
bringing them here, else someday, they get you into serious criminal or
civil case by their words or conducts.” Until then…MOTWUM!!
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