AS TOLD TO BC PIRES

My name is the Honourable Prophet Andy and I am a Boboshanti nuts vendor on the road.

I’m from the Boboshanti order. Which I’m a man keep my Sabbath. Work six days, rest holy unto the Lord.

I’m from Laventille, born on top the Hill, which part I had all my boy days. But recently I’m living Maracas St Joseph.

Laventille people used to live as one. I coulda eat by you, you coulda eat by me. It was just a love. Until the Eighties, when the guns and the gangs start to come in. Laventille still nice.

It’s just a certain bad seed does spoil the whole great bunch.

I went Our Lady of Fatima. I liked school, used to do my homework and thing and, in the earlies, I was really picking up.

But when you come up with a mother alone, is a hard thing for your schooling. Through my father not around, it was a distress and disturbance in my life.

I never went secondary school.

My father was just a worthless fella. If he was a worthless fella, I can’t say he was good.

I not lying. Is only the truth could set you free.

I am in a relationship with a very nice woman, a productive woman, a woman a man could depend.

Her name is Samantha. She is a person I see I could make it in life with.

I have four good-looking and lovely children which I love and which I know love me and which I will work hard for them. I try my best to don’t do them what my father do me! My first daughter, Okisa Campbell, is 22. My son Shem Campbell going on 21. My next daughter, Abioma Campbell, is 18. My last daughter, Vanna, is 15 going on 16 years.

I believe in honesty and I believe in working hard. The only way I could enjoy my food in the night is if I work for it. If I take something from you, I can’t go home and enjoy it! I go be studying, Boy, I take that food from that man, I wonder if he have children at home to eat that food too?

As a youth I grew up around plenty Rastas. I had a brother was a Rasta. From the age of 13 years, I liked Rasta. I stopped eating flesh and turn a vegetarian.

Right now, I’m 53, so you see I live most of my life as a vegetarian and as a Boboshanti.

[caption id="attachment_896259" align="alignnone" width="1024"] "I could do joining and painting. I could do most things. But I choose to sell nuts," says Propher Andy. - Mark Lyndersay[/caption]

I’m a tradesman. I do upholstery. I could do joining and painting. I could do most things.

But I choose to sell nuts. Because is less stress. Because I don’t have to wait for people to pay me!

I used to sell drinks on the highway in El Socorro. I was the original “Cold-in-the-Ice” by the traffic light!

If a man come by me with a dollar and want a pack of nuts, I give him, because I know is a customer I gain.

All these Christianity, these fellas only on money.

A fella go and preach in church for