SATGURU MAHARAJ JI EXTOLS ACE BROADCASTER, JONES USEN AT 70
By Oki Samson, Trek Africa Newspaper
L-R: Satguru Maharaj Ji with the veteran Broadcaster, Mr. Jones Usen “The Citizen”.
…Advises the newest septuagenarian to ‘stop using the colour blue’.
For many who are ardent followers of broadcasting of politics in Nigeria, the name Jones Usen is an household name. The veteran broadcaster who fondly calls himself ‘the citizen’ clocked 70 recently and was well appreciated by all and sundry in various spheres of Nigerian sociopolitical terrain.
Satguru Maharaj Ji was also full of praises for the man whom he emphatically stated gave him the first opportunity to speak on Nigerian media space. Satguru Maharaj Ji who spoke with the Managing Editor of Trek Africa Newspaper, Oki Samson and other Journalists at a press briefing on State of the Nation, share ‘You were the first person who interviewed me at Radio Two when I was still the servant of the living master. I recalled that there was confrontation from some people who said ‘you can’t interview this man’. But look at it today. I remember the closing song of that day, ‘if you take your hand carry am, you go use your head take am’ and today I am the head by election or by special gift. I am now the master.’
The spiritual leader who also shared how he came in contact with the broadcaster par excellence, ‘July 17, 1976 in the University of Pennsylvania was where the person I followed said Mohammed Saheed Ajiroba was the one to take over but the law was that until I found a place and operate for four months, I cannot start. It was during this process of baton passing that we met.’
Satguru later discredited the use of blue as a colour by Africans. He also said that Jones Usen not to wear the colour again. ‘There is vibration in everything and that’s the way it is in colours. Red is super followed by black; green is fertility, and yellow is wisdom.’
He continued: ‘If someone is in blue or they play the blues music, you see him start behaving like someone that will fall. When someone dies, you will see the blood is near blue.’
The likeness of Africans for blue as a colour, he established, came from the Europeans. ‘We grew up to learn from the Europeans that blue is love but how can blue be love? Our research has debunked that claim. Anywhere you see thuggery on the rise; the police there are wearing blue. You will find that most accidents are by those who wear the blue colour, have their car painted blue or are coming from blue painted rooms.’
Satguru Maharaj Ji
