Nigerian comedian Oghenekowhoyan Onaibe Desmond, popularly known as Destalker, recently shared why he quit his job as a pallbearer.
Destalker revealed that he enjoyed his job and had plans to start his own undertaker band, but an unfortunate incident changed his mind. In an interview with TVC, he recounted a time when he and his colleagues were dancing with a casket. During the performance, they threw the casket up, and it suddenly broke into pieces.
The incident terrified Destalker, leading him to abandon his job as a pallbearer.
Destalker said, “When I joined the undertaker band initially, I wasn’t carrying caskets. I was only dancing because I know how to dance very well. I won best Makossa dancer in my street before.
“But after six or seven months, I started carrying caskets. I was really enjoying it but there was an incident that happened. Let me tell you why I stopped because by now I’m supposed to have my own undertaker band. We went to carry a female corpse from Asaba to Igbuzo. When we were about to enter the compound, the children of the deceased asked us to dance with the casket. As we were throwing it up, suddenly, it shattered. The coffin is fake.
“It wasn’t funny. That was how I lost interest in the undertaker job.”
