“I Ran From Rehab Because Their Medicines Weaken My Manhood” – Majek Fashek.

Nigerian Reggae Legend and very troubled man, Majek Fashek, has spoken up on his battle with drugs, moving to a new house in Lagos and why he prefers ‘Babalawo (Herbalist)‘ medicine to rehab.

Read excerpts from his interview with Encomium below:

Is there any hope of you and your wife getting back together?

It’s up to my wife, if she loves me. She’s a woman, she won’t live forever. Nobody can, except God. If she loves her children, she will reunite with me so I can help them. It was the celestial church that confused her. They gave her wrong vision about me. The celestial church can’t try me any day, any time. I will attack them. 

In our last interview, you said you went for rehab in America. How did that go?

Yeah, America helped me. Most American superstars go to rehab because they take cocaine, heroin and the likes which make them ‘too high’. So, they have to go to rehab. Rehab helps calm their brains, after which they go back to their business.

In your case, was it helpful?

Yes, it was helpful. I was ‘high’, but after rehab, I got my contract with Top Gun International Records, that’s Bob Marley’s label. I got it through Rita Marley (his wife) and an American woman, Cassandra. Rehab calms the brain so it won’t explode. It calmed me.

In your case, did you really quit after rehab?

I’m scared of rehab. Let me tell you what I did to escape the rehab. God gave me different knowledge of orisha, babalawo knowledge. My ancestral knowledge, which is what I’m using right now. I now drink akpeteshie. It’s the orisha idea I got.

What do native doctors use?

Akpeteshie! You don’t understand? I changed the programme of rehab to akpeteshie. That is what I drink, so, I don’t have to use foreign medication. It weakens the brain and the body. It’s medicine, but babalawos use akpeteshie.

So, you prefer akpeteshie to rehab?

I prefer akpeteshie in the sense that the white man’s drugs weakens your mind, you might not even be able to have sex. you mean during the period of the rehab?

Yes. I remember my manhood no dey raise. That’s why I went for akpeteshie. Let me tell you one truth, if you are married, you must have sex with your wife. If you cannot, she would divorce you or take her body elsewhere. So, I follow babalawo medicine