Mercy Johnson React To Critics Over Train Transportation

Is the public train only for commoners? David Cameron the UK prime minister and other top rank officials commute with the train, even Rihanna was spotted on the train, she once travelled on the

train with her entourage to perform at the O2 Arena. So why should Nigerian entertainers commuting on the train be a big deal, why should using public transport be attributed to poverty? The expectation of the people would continue to proliferate corruption, why won't these public figure commit the abominable to please the public, why won't government officials continue to steal to finance that custom made imported bullet proof cars.  We need to change our sense of reasoning! Blogger K

On Tuesday March 2, the social media was thrown into pandemonium when pictures of top Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson and her first child, Purity, surfaced online aboard a local train en-route Ikeja from Iddo. There was so much outrage from her fans, many of whom felt the actress descended too low to take a train ride with common people. Some were even of the opinion that she may be getting broke.

Mercy Johnson train but the mother of two has cast aside all the aspersions, saying she took the train only because she had to make an appointment in Ikeja after her Range Rover SUV broke down.

“I was around Iddo at Ebute Metta when my Range Rover developed a mechanical fault and I had to make a very important appointment in Ikeja, regardless of the usual traffic congestion  in Lagos. Luckily, a member of my management team was around, he suggested a train ride and we were in Ikeja in less than 30 minutes”.

On taking a train ride with the so-called common people, the actress said she is as ordinary person as the next person in the street.

“I grew up as an ordinary person among ordinary people. Why would I avoid them now? Would that be because I am now famous? Without these ordinary people, how would I have been famous in the first place?  Without the so called ordinary people, where would Nigeria’s growing population of so-called well packaged celebrities be today?