Sources have it that Kim Kardashian's visit to Lagos for Darey Art Alade's "Love Like A Movie" event garnered her a whooping $500,000!. . . And she appeared for just 40 minutes!!
This fleeting visit of hers for which she netted cool half a million smackers has angered a lot of people in the country. There are those who even raised eyebrows as to why a woman of questionable moral standing like Kim should even be allowed to come into the country in the first place, much less host a show for a country badly in need of morally upstanding role-models.
According to local reports, Kim stayed at the event for 45 minutes, making a 45-second statement on the microphone.
Independent Nigerian TV station Channels Television reported: ‘There were disappointments after Kim Kardashian came on stage for only 40 seconds.’
Guardian blogger Jeremy Weate described how Kim’s visit was an example of the country’s economic elite ‘blowing its money on bling puffery while most of the country suffers’.
He wrote: ‘Ms Kardashian appeared, said, “Hey Naija” and vamoosed. The rumour was that she’d been paid 500,000 Benjamins for the honour of mixing with the petro-class.’
ThisDay newspaper’s Eddy Odivwri wrote: ‘Many families are not exactly comfortable with her lifestyle, as she hardly cuts the image of a role model to a generation in need of a moral dress up.’
If you recall, her infamous sex tape is still fresh on the minds of people, and her brief marriage to Kris Humphries which lasted barely 72 days, still leaves a sour taste in many people's mouths.
So when you lump all that into one big mass, and add the fact that she just strolled into the country, appeared at a show for 45 minutes, spoke for 40 seconds and walked away with half a million dollars, what you have is major agro and angst against the reality show beauty.
Can you blame us?
As if to add insult to injury, she tweeted just after landing in Los Angeles:
"Just landed back home! 20 hrs of flying. No big deal."
No big deal indeed: Our money miss road elites needed to throw some of their excess cash away, and you helped them do it.
Can you blame HER?
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