Patience Ozokwor in a new Punch newspaper interview has set the records straight about claims that
she has dumped the alias ‘Mama G’, Nollywood and her relationship with
God.
“I
did not just give my life to Christ. I have been a Christian all my
life. The problem was that there were some compromises God wanted me to
remove from my life. He wants me to be the face of Christianity so that
when anyone sees me, they will know that I am a child of God.
The
world has mingled with the church a lot and there is no difference
between the world and the church. The way the worldly people dress is
the way Christians are dressing nowadays. God told me he does not want
his people to dress in that manner anymore. The men would plait their
hair and use earrings, all these things are making God angry and even
the women should be modest according to the way it is written in the
Bible.
People should be known to be Christians through the way
they dress, talk and approach life situations. You cannot call yourself a
Christian and you drink alcohol. God does not want all that. I did not
just repent now, I have been a born again Christian all these years, it
is just that everybody has gone astray and we are now like unbelievers.
That is what God said.
It is not true that I said I do not want to
be referred to as Mama G. I did not say so. It is the people that want
to sell their papers that told that lie. God did not say I should retire
from my work; after all, we act dramas in church. He did not tell me to
stop acting and he did not tell me to stop bearing Mama G. Mama G is
not a bad name, there are people who have bad names and he said they
should drop them. Mine is not bad. The meaning of Mama means mother and
the G stands for General. I am everybody’s mother. Even the scripture
says that I am a mother to everybody, even the motherless children. I am
just lucky because everything is falling into place. My name is not
bad. The world should know that Mama G is still Mama G; I am still Mama
General and in other parts of Africa, they call me Mama Africa. How can I
deny my fans of that? God did not ask me to quit my job, neither did he
say I should renounce the name Mama G because there is nothing wrong
with the name. However, if he asks me to stop bearing the name, I will
throw it away because it is all about what he wants and not what any man
wants.
My
faith would not affect my career or movie roles. The movie I am about to
shoot is an action movie. I am using it to expose some ills in the
society. There are some obscene scenes that I cannot take part in
because I am a child of God. If you watch my films, you will know that I
have never shot any movie that is obscene. I tell my stories but you
will never see me naked. Even when I try to portray some nude scenes, I
do it moderately.My children are Christians and my daughter got
born again at the age of five. She is in London and she has nothing
against my faith. I should be with them on Thursday. It was when I had
an encounter with God that people started calling her to inform her that
I was running mad and they became worried. After I finished my 30 day
encounter with God and came out of it, when she saw me, she knew I was
fine.
I have been like this since I was a member of the Scripture Union.
I don’t have any problem with my children, we are all fine and they are
proud of me. In fact, they are my best friends. I go to places where I
can talk not only at churches or crusades, I talk about the word of God
anywhere I can. I need to tell everyone the truth about the word of God.
The Lord said that I should remove my dreads because even though my
dread is from my natural hair, whenever I am preaching against weaves
and telling ladies that it is demonic, people may think I am carrying
one and they begin to ask why I have such on my head.”