Death doesn't scare me, but being poor does -- Peter Okoye

Peter Okoye

Famous Nigerian singer Peter Okoye, who people know best as Mr P, has spoken honestly about his biggest worry: being poor.

While on a recent episode of the Nancy Isime Show, Mr P made it clear that he isn't afraid of dying, but he is afraid of poverty.

He described a terrible experience from his childhood, explaining that his family's one-room rented home was pulled down after the landlord sold the place.

He stressed that he never wants to go back to those difficult times.

In his words; “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.”