I’ve never smoked hemp – Daddy Showkey

Elijah Adebero
 
From-Ajegunle-tostardom musician, Daddy Showkey,  has said that he has never smoked marijuana.
 
Many Nigerian artistes do so and some even do some other drugs and promote such in their songs.
 
Among such are Naira Marley, while a Femi Kuti not only smokes hemp, he also defends it for its medical values.
 
But Showkey said hemp was not part of his life, as he revealed during the ‘Sempe’ Sunday service at the God Bless Nigeria Church led by Pastor Tony Rapu, noted that God moved him from grace to grace, and he has decided to keep his hair, too.
 
According to him, he kept his hair because of the covenant he had with God if he eventually made him rich.
 
Daddy Showkey said:
“Today, people call me ‘Daddy Showkey’, but they don’t know my story. 
 
If I can be an example to others, there is no one here that cannot be used as an example.
 
I used to be called ‘John Pako’.
 
I cannot believe that people would want to relate with me now.”
 
I promised God that if he moved me from ghetto to grace, I would never cut my hair.
 
I challenged God that if he could make me successful, I would keep my hair as a covenant with him.
 
Truly, God has overdone it over and again. I did not keep the dreadlocks to be a ‘rasta-man’.
 
It is because of the covenant I have with God.
 
I have been offered millions of naira to cut my hair but I refused because I had made a covenant with God.
 
I am here because I know the only way one can change another life is by sharing one’s story with that person. 
 
Someone asked me when I had an encounter with God.
 
I had an encounter with God a long time ago.
 
I told the person they don’t listen to my music because all my songs are testimonies.
 
I have never smoked Indian hemp since I was born.
 
God has a reason for choosing me to be a testimony.”