‘I’m Afraid Of Being Broke’ – Peter Okoye

Award-winning Nigerian singer, Peter Okoye, popularly known as Mr P, has declared he is afraid of poverty and being broke.

Abia Radio News 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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