Re - The BBC presenter accused of having paid £35,000 over a three-year period for some “explicit photos”.
Cornelius Hamelberg
The sort of scandal that’s never breaking news anywhere in Africa.
What a sigh of relief after all the anxiety about who the mysterious BBC presenter could be!
I had fasted and prayed, Dear Lord, not our Stephen Sackur or John Simpson or Peter Okwoche who we hadn't seen for a while on BBC Focus on Africa. Has he been suspended? That was a legitimate question. But I was sure that it couldn’t be him and had ruled him out completely because even when live, on air, in front of worldwide viewers, subjectively and objectively speaking, I credit myself with sufficient experience to discern and recognise at base, the ill-concealed lust ( the body language and the special gleam in his eyes whenever he was seen to be flirting with that luscious sports presenter the buxom Mimi Fawaz - just about the right size and I don’t blame the randy, obviously 100% heterosexual Okwoche either because any mortal man who would have been in his boots - a healthy and completely unmarried, normal man - day after day standing so close to the heat - well - everybody knows that temptation/ provocation is next to madness and that within shooting range it should have been halal to at least take a shot, take the bull and even the duchess by the horns - shoot first and ask questions later.
But now it’s a dull and great sorrow in Merry England and there’s nothing to smile about the situation Huw Edwards is in at the moment.
In Nigeria and Sierra Leone, the elections have come and gone. In Sierra Leone, the main opposition party, the APC wants to boycott parliament and some pundits say that’s a bad idea - more about that later, in a separate thread.
After sunshine cometh rain,” after hardship comes ease”, but the fun is not yet completely over there either, so - laughter is the best medicine so they say, and to lighten - not necessarily to enlighten the heart I have been enquiring, how is Mr. Macaroni doing, especially after listening to this episode of Louis CK on Saturday Night Live ( no holds barred about race-ism