Following the widespread reports that legendary reggae musician Majekodunmi Fasheke aka Majek Fashek was of ill health and living in penury, the Rainmaker in a recent interview with Encomium Magazine debunked the report as false and claimed that the “The Nigerian press, the print in particular, not electronic, have been blackmailing him.”
They are trying to ruin me, writing all sorts of things against me. I did nothing” he said. “It’s not true. He continued. “The thing is I’m a Rasta Man and a prisoner of conscience. Poverty is a sin, I cannot discriminate against the streets, even though I am a millionaire. I have $100, 000 in one of the biggest banks in America. I’m not a careless man. I’m a father with four boys. What happened was the hotel I was staying didn’t have light and they didn’t put on the generator. I was bored. So, I went into the streets to buy myself a drink. I like Guinness, sometimes Apeteshi or malt. I use the Apeteshi to consult with the Holy Spirit. The Nigerian print is trying me, I will pour fire on them. Don’t they want me to live? You people, the media control the world. People believe whatever you write. You control even the presidents of the world. The area boys and girls are the ones that saved my stardom. I didn’t even know that guy wrote this thing came to investigate me. Is he CIA? I even bought him bread that day.”
He also said he though he has a bungalow at Ogba in Lagos, he stopped his family from coming to see him a few years ago because it wasn’t practical for them even though they were missing him.
Despite this, NET confirmed that Majek’s ex wife, one of his sons and Monica Omorodion Swaida (one of Majek’s former dancers) will be visiting him to help sort out his ‘issues.’