CITIZENS COMPASS—83-year-old popular singer, Bongos Ikwue, had said that his most painful experience in life is that his wife is no more.
The Otukpo, Benue State -born singer disclosed this over the weekend in an interview with Channels Television.
Born on June 6, 1942, he
said though his musical career is doing well, he would have appreciated it if the late wife was with him at his old age.
“I guess I’m doing very well. I’m doing okay. I’m happy to be here. I’m happy to be with you, too.
“I don’t think any human is a robot. So, the consciousness of feeling and missing somebody is so profound, and it’s difficult to explain to anybody. My dear wife always told me something. She always looked forward to the day when I stop running around the whole country and settle down at an old age so we could have a lot of time together. It’s very painful, it never did happen. When she passed on, I dedicated a song.
“Our knowledge is so infinitesimal. I don’t feel qualified to talk about anything because there’s so much that we don’t know about. Maybe the only reason I think I know is because I don’t know at all. But governance, to me, put very simply, means service. Talking about service, service is the only commodity today for sale.
Service must also transcend whoever is leading; any country must learn to render service first. It takes a little to understand. Maybe I don’t quite understand what I’m talking about, but I can feel it. Once you’re unable to render service, and you are just taking, that’s a problem.
“To give is much more beautiful than to take. If you have ever given something to somebody who actually needed it at a particular time, the feeling is unbelievable to express.
“There are quite a lot of them, but when I first met my wife, I didn’t think she would say yes, and she did say yes. That’s unbelievable, isn’t it? At that point, she looked so pretty, yeah. And I said to myself, “Is this really going to happen?” and it did happen.
“I really don’t know. There are lots of things I don’t know, but I think it is the hand of the Almighty. What I don’t understand sometimes, I think God is the most complex of all beings. He’s the ultimate mystery, we take him for granted.
“I would say everything that happened to me carried the hand of providence along with it. I’m not a religious person, but I’m a total believer in God Almighty. There are two different things, maybe we’ll talk about that later.”
