Award-winning musician Peter Okoye, better known by his stage as Mr. P, has stated that being broke and poverty is his worst fear.
Mr. P said in a recent interview on the Nancy Isime show that while he doesn’t fear death, he is terrified of going back to living in poverty.
He talked about his early years and how his family’s one-room flat was destroyed when the landlord sold the property.
Mr P also described living in a boys’ quarter with his parents and brothers, where two girls and six boys shared a one-bedroom flat separated by a curtain.
He emphasized that he has personally experienced poverty and does not desire to go back 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.”
