The Explicit organizes Christmas concert for IDPs

The Explicit, a group of young talented and gifted artists made up of singers and producers has downplayed its usual Christmas Carol concert in town to mark it with the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Abuja, to give them a sense of belonging.

The President of the Explicit, Jakins Arome said as a group, they came together to touch the lives of this generation through community outreach programmes from the proceeds of their singing.

“We put our proceeds together to see how we can support the less privilege in the society,” he said.

Arome said, “Instead of us to do the usual big concert in hotels, rent space, pay for artists, I prefer to buy hundred bags of rice with the money to give to this people that is my own ideology of Christmas,” he added.

While noting that they cancelled an invitation to perform somewhere just to be with the IDPs, he said “We have been going

around singing and we have been blessed one way or the other, why don’t we give back to the society, that’s what informed the decision of being here.”

The group also donated some items to help the people clean up and get ready for festive period and also pledges to return to the camp to donate rice and other food items a day before Christmas.

The group said government is trying but it cannot do it alone, but governments need to know that they can also affect the lives of one person and the other affects another, so it can grow.