Author Topic: JOSSART NIOKA LONGO'S FIRST INTERVIEW AFTER PAPA WEMBA'S DEATH  (Read 2116 times)

archos on: July 30, 2016, 11:57

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He says he was in his bed about to sleep after a concert and a moment of catholic prayers and he received a message from papa wemba's manager marie laure yaone informing him that papa wemba had collapsed on stage and he called her and she said doctors were doing their best to save him and that papa wemba was scheduled like 7 hours earlier than the hour he went on stage because the organisers prefered him to wait and end the show as he was the biggest star there so he could not sleep anymore and was waiting for further news and 40 minutes after she called him and she was crying hard and told him papa had passed away and he told her it would be too hard for him to be the one informing mama amazone of the news and he is so hurt that he can't even stand from bed  and later he went there as he was told she was already informed and she wanted to see him so he went and did not found amazone as she had a discomfort and was taken to hospital and later to prayers and he went back to papa wemba's home to wait for her and he found koffi and some other musicians there aswel as kinshasa's governor who decided to organize a reunion in order to make sure papa wemba's body is taken back to DRC as quick as possible
he says he did not want to talk to internet journalists but he had to react to how it was said on "labouche autorisee" facebook page that he was the person behind koffi not going on plane with them to abidjan to come back with papa wemba's body and that people on that page talked trash about him saying he was living in europe as a gigolo and he replies that in his whole europe stay he remained at the same house whereas he could have lived with his kids or with friends  he is not a rich man but he is not the type of person who is always depending on other people
he asks how on earth he can give order to governor that koffi is not taken on plane and says to journalist that he is "lucky" because he is the first to get him for such a long time he did interviews before but it was very hard to avoid crying because he still feels a big pain because papa wemba despite having left zaiko was still somebody very close for him and he can say today that he owes his career to papa wemba since its from papa wemba that zaiko was born
papa wemba was pissed at him for not calling when he was in coma in paris and jossart told him he did all his best to do it  and later on they meet at studio  on a song against malaria and papa wemba told him he was going to abidjan and he told him "come on its too early" and papa replied its a contract he had signed long before so he had to go and he'd return quickly and they will meet again because they had a lot of things to talk about and jossart with a lot of emotion says after seeing him at studio the next and last time he saw him was in the coffin
and he talks again about how he was accused of being the man behind koffi not going to abidjan,and says koffi said ivorian authorities asked him to go but koffi wanted congolese authorities to pay his ticket and they refused because they were getting a plane so that a delegation of musicians and authorities goes to abidjan
and about the fact he was also involved in koffi not attending funerals in kin he says  its false and that when there was a reunion with people from molokai and authorities its those people who said if koffi comes they'll cause trouble so constant omari,who was a friend of papa wemba and president of federation of football called koffi to inform him he was not welcome and also informed verckys  that papa wemba's family did not want to see him at funerals so what koffi's spokesmen said hinting that it was nioka longo who did everything to make sure koffi does not participate to papa wemba's funerals is completely false and why would he do it because he does not hate koffi, koffi's first songs as a solo artist were played by zaiko's musicians