Award-winning musician Peter Okoye, widely known as Mr P, has disclosed that his greatest fear is poverty and financial hardship.
During a recent appearance on the Nancy Isime show, Mr P explained that while he does not fear death, the possibility of falling back into poverty deeply worries him.
Reflecting on his upbringing, Mr P recounted how his family’s single-room home was destroyed after the landlord sold the property.
He narrated how he, his parents and his siblings lived in a boys’ quarter, with six boys and two girls sharing a one-bedroom space that was separated by a curtain.
Mr P stressed that he has personally experienced poverty and is determined never to relive 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.”
