“I Am Not A Ritualist” – Kanayo O. Kanayo Insists.

Veteran Nollywood actor, Anayo Modestus Onyekwere, popularly known with the screen name Kanayo O. Kanayo, has reacted to his famed role of been a ritualist in most movies.

The actor has been stereotyped in light of the role with many believing that he is indeed into occult practices in reality.

He however condemned such allegations after an Instagram user commented on his post and tagged him a ritualist.

Kanayo had shared a video from a birthday party he attended. The celebrant was a 100-year-old woman who happened to be the mother of fellow veteran actor, Chika Anyanwu.

The Instagram user made a comment that he was surprised the old woman had not been used for ‘blood money’ rituals by Kanayo.

Mr. Anayo however showed his objection to the comment of the Instagram user and stated that the follower was irresponsible and should go off his page.

He wrote;

“Many of our youths are not focused and they see the social media as a place to get back at some people. The most unfortunate thing is that they abuse the privilege they have. Even people who cannot speak before one now think they have the opportunity to rubbish one.

However, those things don’t affect me because if one has got to a particular stage in life, there are people one should not respond to. Whenever anybody posts a comment that I don’t consider to be ‘worthy’, I go to the person’s page to check who they are following and who is following them. Imagine getting to such a page and finding out that the person has only five followers but is following over 10,000 people. Many of these people are irresponsible and their stock-in-trade is to make negative comments on social media. As for me, I don’t join issues with such people.

“Whether we like it or not, this is Africa where we respect seniority, especially when an elder or leader has not brought themselves to a point where they would be insulted. I guess some of these people were raised in places where they don’t know about cultural values.

It is most unfortunate that even when one plays certain roles, some youths cannot distinguish between one and the character. Just because one acted as a criminal on TV, some persons see the actor as a criminal. Meanwhile, an actor has to be flexible. Acting as a ‘ritualist’ does not mean one is a ritualist in real life. Anyway, I see those who think that way as uneducated, uninformed and having complex problems. We need to redefine the word, ‘youth’, in Nigeria. Being a youth does not mean one has to be irresponsible.”

See a photo of their conversation below;

One comment

  1. Youths of nowadays poking on wealthy people,cause the cant afford to be wealthy because they are non chalant,i am young youth but im not so irresponsible to be insulting people on social media.i believe in such cases they should be ignored cares #kanayo.o.kanayo. #role model

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