Award-winning Nigerian singer, Peter Okoye, popularly known as Mr P, has declared he is afraid of poverty and being broke.
Naijaonpoint reports that Mr P, during an interview in a recent episode of the Nancy Isime Show, said he is not afraid of death.
Recounting his childhood experiences, the singer said his family’s rented single-room apartment and was demolished after the landlord sold the property.
Mr P emphasised that he had tasted poverty and he does not wish to return to it.
He said, “I am not afraid of death. The only thing I am afraid of in this life is poverty, of being broke.
“I have tasted it [poverty] before. I have been in our house with my parents and siblings and a bulldozer came and demolished it.
“We were living in a boys’ quarter, me, my mum, my dad, all of us. The whole family, six boys and two girls living in a one-bedroom apartment. They had to divide the room with a curtain. So, the landlord had sold the compound, we were trying to plead to get some time to plan our relocation and then a bulldozer came and started demolishing the house while we were still in the building.”
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