I Am Not Broke - Majek Fashek Speaks

Nigerian Reggae legend Majek Fashek popularly known as the ‘Rain Maker’whom a Lagos pastor recently asked to be brought to him for deliverance from his drug and alcohol addiction after being allegedly said to be roaming the streets of Lagos, in a new interview with Encomium Magazine, boasted that he is a millionaire and the reports of him being broke is nothing but a blackmail. Read excerpts below...

On the speculations of him begging, he said:
"The Nigerian press, the print in particular, not electronic, have been blackmailing me. They are trying  to ruin me writing all sorts of things against me. I did nothing. I was in America, I had to come back to prove them wrong. I’m a Rastafarian man, a prisoner of conscience. I’m the begotten of Jesus Christ. He’s my father."

On him roaming the streets, he said:
"It’s not true. The thing is I’m a Rasta man and a prisoner of conscience. These are my two movements. And a prisoner of conscience and Rastaman does not avoid the poor. Poverty is a sin, I cannot discriminate against the streets, even though I’m 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. Why would I, as a prisoner of conscience, alienate myself from the poor man and woman? Then I am not a prisoner of conscience. How can I beg?"

On who leaked the story: 
"I didn’t even know that guy that wrote this thing came to investigate me. Is he CIA? I even bought bread for him that day."

On the true state of things:
"The true state of things is that they are all rumours, God still kept me. It’s all blackmail. It’s only God that has kept me alive that I must obey."

On having his own house:
"Yes, I have a house in Ogba, Lagos. It’s a bungalow. There are was a beef, which we have settled."