“Man pass man no be wayo” was the mantra of a once popular hawker somewhere in Diobu, Port Harcourt. He hawked soap and toothpaste and would sing that his products were better than anything else in that category of products. They were not products of popular multinational companies, yet his confidence was over the top. His assertive carriage and hype of his products made him popular around the Railway Line at Mile One. What everyone wanted to hear him chant was ‘Man pass man.’
Man pass man came to mind when Saheed Osupa and Portable were the issue recently. Portable Omo Olalomi is known for his loud and often loquacious nature. He is very much at home with controversy and he has always been swimming in troubled waters. The interesting angle to Portable’s life of “One Week One Trouble” is that he often attracts it.
Portable recently used a song by Saheed Osupa, the Fuji musician whose only recent controversy was the Colleague mi (My Colleague) episode that involved him, Pasuma Wonder and Taye Currency. Saheed Osupa is one Fuji musician with some physical and musical verve. He has been more removed from controversies that he could be said to have been involved in them.
However, this does not mean that he runs when he should stand. He does his thing and stands his ground well — both musically and culturally.
Portable courted his trouble with the Osupa’s song he sampled. Rather than play fair with the copyright infringement, Portable, as is his trademark, went to his live videos to disparage Osupa and dragged his name through the mud. And he was doing this to someone whose work you brazenly stole! His excuse? “Stars use other stars’ songs without consequences and that was all I did.”
Osupa, rather than join Portable in the mud, reported to the relevant authorities and engineered his arrest from one gauche police command – Kwara State. When the game runs awkwardly, it is only normal that the hunter will shoot awkwardly at it.
The police arraigned him, and the court gave him a bail with some tough conditions. Of course, Portable could not meet the bail conditions and he was remanded in a custodial centre. The bail was not about the money but some of the other difficult conditions. He was, among other things, asked to produce a surety who owns a landed property in GRA, Ilorin. Portable was taken from his shrine-like abode in Ota, Ogun State!
The point isn’t the propriety or otherwise of what transpired among the trio of Portable, Saheed Osupa and the Police but the fact that Portable could be silenced and weaned from his loudness and loquaciousness.
He has been off radar since Osupa withdrew the case against him, a leeway for him to explore and get off the hook. Portable has been shown that ‘man pass man’ and that noise might not achieve much. Let’s hope he has learnt his lessons, especially after his hair was scrapped. Death which took your cap only gave a warning.
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