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Daddy Femi and DJ Cuppy Drop N5Billion Like It’s Hot

Daddy Femi and DJ Cuppy Drop N5Billion Like It’s Hot

With the Otedolas, it’s either grand, it seems, or nothing. Not for them small, patchy measures that barely hold things in place. This much was evident again at the Gold Gala organised by the DJ Cuppy Foundation where her father Femi Otedola donated N5bn and his bosom buddy, DJ Cuppy’s godfather, Aliko Dangote, shelled out another N100m, all to help support the children in Nigeria’s North East where for many years many children have dropped out of school due to the combined activities of Boko Haram, ISWAP and Fulani bandits.

This surge of criminal activities has left many families displaced; thousands of breadwinners dead or unaccounted for and children who should be children become untimely brides or untimely breadwinners.

The big presentation was made on daddy’s behalf by Cuppy’s older sister, Tolani, who made the point about her father being “at the forefront of supporting worthy causes. It is in this spirit that he will be donating the sum of N5bn to the children of Borno, Adamawa and Katsina through Save the Children.” Clap, clap, clap….

Alhaji Dangote, while making his own remarks recalled how Cuppy’s ‘big heart’ had compelled her to visit with the displaced children in Borno IDP Camps where she spent 4 days comforting them and generally getting abreast of their issues. The fabled billionaire admitted that that it was in light of this grand gesture of hers and the fact that he needed to ‘be here supporting my brother Femi’ that he was giving N100m as his own token.

Read also: Updated: Otedola donates N5bn for North-East intervention

Lots of young people everywhere are keyed into the suffering and privations experienced by the vast majority in the global South particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. This has made people particularly those in the Western hemisphere to devote a good chunk of their charitable moneys and activities towards lifting black people up from poverty. It is instructive to note that the DJ Cuppy Foundation is passing on the donations from her father and Aliko as well as others on to Save the Children UK which is hard at work in North East and North West of Nigeria helping to rebuild lives destabilized by the Boko Haram trauma.

The hope is that more Nigerians will in due course develop the expertise and resource base for going themselves to solving these issues. For now, though, it’s kudos to DJ Cuppy and her benevolent family. Every Nigerian will however do well to remember are the words of the Vice-President who was very present in the star studded audience. He reminded those present how  “It is obvious that government cannot do it alone. So, we don’t (all) need to be billionaires (to do our part). It is time for every one of us to decide to make a difference to ensure that the poor and vulnerable are given a decent life.”

Well said, sir!