“Go And Compete With My Children” — MC Oluomo Fires Back At Critics Mocking His English Grammar
The President, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo has defended his ‘kundusi’ comment amidst the growing mockery among Nigerians.
Recall that the union leader recently erroneously mispronounced kudos as “kundusi” while commending the good works of the union members in the Federal Capital Territory.
In a now-viral video clip from a recent public gathering on Tuesday, the Lagos transport union boss addressed critics who mocked a slip he made while speaking English, particularly his mispronunciation of “kudos” as “Kundus.”
According to him, he is uneducated and could probably be bad at expressing himself in the English language, but he trained his children well, and they are now citizens of the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
He noted that rather than going to school, he ventured into the transport sector, where he started as a bus conductor.
He said in the viral video, “If you and my children come out to express yourself, I’m not sure you can beat them, they are highly educated. I trained my children properly with money. They should go and compete with my children. My children are citizens of America and the United Kingdom. I worked hard to get there.
“‘Kundusi!’ What happened? Grammars are too much. Grammar won’t finish Nigeria, I might not understand the English language, but I understand Yoruba.”
He also relished his beginning, stressing, “I started as a bus conductor, then as a treasurer of a unit of NURTW, to unit chairman, to branch deputy treasurer, to branch treasurer, to branch chairman, to state chairman, and then to national president. I worked hard to get here. I am not educated.
“So they are mocking me for saying ‘kundusi’, is my child not Qudus? You that you are educated, what did you do?,” he queried.
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